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Leo Gerard's picture

Romney, Ryan, GOP Demand Obama Stop Strengthening Welfare Work Mandate

Republicans in two Congressional committees voted last week to press forward with legislation that would deny states the flexibility they requested to help more welfare recipients get jobs.

That’s right.

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Richard Eskow's picture

Takin' It To the Suites

When we turned on the TV to watch the Republican Convention this evening we saw what appeared to be a hyperactive GOP advance man gesticulating from the stage. But he wasn't barking out canvassing instructions to local ward heelers or scouting Holiday Inns to find the one with the best lines of sight to the podium.

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Richard Eskow's picture

Are Republicans 'Crazy?' Not If You Follow the Money

Their opponents shouldn't be too quick to call Republicans "crazy." It makes more sense to employ that time-honored investigative principle: Follow the money. Sure, they've said crazy things -- in their speeches and in their official platform. But crazy? more »

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Leo Gerard's picture

Insecurity Separates Middle Class from Romney, Ryan

The rich, those born sucking silver spoons like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, really are different from the middle class. The wealthy grow up and live their lives wrapped in security. That’s what gives them the arrogance to organize a posse to hold down a fellow prep school student and chop off his hair, mock NASCAR fans’ clothes and ridicule cookies offered by supporters. more »

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Leo Gerard's picture

Romney, Ryan Don’t Get the Average Joe

GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney foolishly revived the dust up about his income tax secrecy last week. He claimed he paid at least 13 percent, an assertion easy enough for him to prove by releasing his tax documents.

But he’s refusing to do that. He called the concern about his tax rate “small minded.” Much more important issues overshadow it, he contended.

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Jeff Bryant's picture

It's Paul Ryan - Not School Teachers - Putting Children At Risk

Just like you can count on "Back to School" season cranking up retail sales this time of year, you can also count on it bringing on a new volley of criticism aimed at school teachers and their unions. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Back to Liberty

More on liberty from Ryan's reply to the President's 2011 SOTU. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Limited Government, Liberty, and Effective Government

More Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU. These are about that old Republican hypocritical favorite, “small government.”

”So I’d like to share with you the principles that guide us. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression

Here's the next group of Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.

On bureaucracy and innovation:

”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer choices has never worked – and it won’t work now.”

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, and Tipping Points

Still more Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.

On the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

”Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health care entitlement. more »

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