Tag Archives: John Boehner

Deficit Supper Committee fails due to Republican refusal to roll back Bush tax beaks

By Mark | November 21, 2011

I went to the gym after work this evening and watched coverage of today’s admission of failure by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. I found myself getting incredibly pissed off, to the point of inadvertently blurting out “asshole” a couple of times, and flipping up my middle finger at the television set in […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, class warfare, deficit, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, endgame, entitlements, Eric Cantor, grand bargain, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Ryan, Russ Feingold, social security, tax the rich, taxation, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, treason | 8 Comments

Obama’s deficit reduction plan not as shitty as thinking Americans feared

By Mark | September 19, 2011

As promised, Barack Obama unveiled his administration’s new deficit reduction plan this afternoon, in the White House rose garden. [Those who want the facts can find an outline of the plan on the White House website. A PDF of the entire proposal can be found there as well.] From what I can tell, it marks […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged budget cuts, Buffett Rule, Bush tax cuts, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, deficit, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, grand bargain, job creation, John Fleming, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, math, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitch McConnell, Obama, Paul Ryan, political hardball, tax loopholes, tax the rich, theology of tax cuts, veto | 30 Comments

The Republicans are “Going to hurt some people,” and they know it

By Mark | July 26, 2011

We all know that the gap between rich and poor in America is growing wider, right? Well, it looks like it might get even worse, if the Democrats aren’t able to turn the debt ceiling debate around. According to reports out today, the new plan being championed by Speaker of the House John Boehner would […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Allen West, Ben Affleck, Center on Budget and Policy Prioritie, class warfare, debt ceiling, empathy, empathy fail, entitlements, Eric Cantor, House Budget Committee, Kevin McCarthy, Medicare, Paul Ryan, poverty, race and poverty, Robert Greenstein, social security, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Town | 56 Comments

Playing chicken with the Republicans over the Debt Ceiling

By Mark | July 25, 2011

It looks as though President Obama has endorsed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s debt-ceiling proposal, which, according to the White House, would cut government spending by $2.7 trillion and increase the federal borrowing limit through 2012. It would seem that Democrats, in spite of the fact that they control the White House and Senate, have […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged America is a low tax country, Bernie Sanders, Bush tax cuts, corporate welfare, debt ceiling, fiscal responsibility, Harry Reid, impeachment, Mitch McConnell, money as free speech, national debt, Obama, Steve King, tax policy, tax the rich, taxes, threats to the middle class | 27 Comments

National Public Radio under attack and in jeopardy

By Mark | March 20, 2011

By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. […]