Former Senate candidate says the Tea Party sits at the GOP’s ‘kids table’
Two years ago the Tea Party was ubiquitous with watercooler and talk radio political banter. After both political conventions evacuated their hosting cities in the southeast, the Tea Party remains enigmatic. donkeyhotey More...
President Obama says ‘problems can be solved’ as he ‘needs more time’ TRANSCRIPT
The Daily Beast calls President Obama’s DNC closing speech a “sober call to arms” as he accepts the nomination and will seek a second term. The President simply says he needs more time. “I won’t More...
Bill Clinton tells fellow Democrats ‘We’re in this together’ and ‘no one could have repaired all the damage’
Bill Clinton made the nation a big promise Wednesday night, pledging to those still struggling that their economic fortunes will turn around if they reelect President Barack Obama. 2004 photo/Tom wikimedia commons “A More...
Sean Hannity Interviews Paul Ryan On Radio Show: Still Doesn’t Question Voting Record
photo/donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com On the Sean Hannity radio show yesterday, the Republican shill host, Hannity, spent ten full one-on-one with Republican VP contender, Paul Ryan. During this time, Hannity, More...
Paul Ryan As Romney’s V.P. Pick: A Bold Conservative Pick Or More Of The Status Quo?
After months of speculation the news is out and this morning in front of a national television audience, Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney announced, what many on the right see as a bold move, Wisconsin More...
Greece PM Antonis Samaras says country is in a ‘Great Depression’
Image/CIA Greece’s recession is very deep, in fact Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told former U.S. President Bill Clinton earlier this week that Greece is in a “Great Depression”, reminiscent of More...
Germany targeted by Moody’s to lose their Aaa credit ranking
Moody’s cut the outlook on Germany’s prized AAA credit rating from “stable” to “negative” Monday. The move could precede a full-blown downgrade, which would mark a grim turn for More...
‘Audit the Fed’ bill passes Committee with no vocal opposition
Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s signature legislation that he has been fighting for for three decades was unanimously passed in the the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee More...
Spain to ask for a lifeline for their banks; could amount to 100 billion euros
The fourth largest economy in the Eurozone is likely to ask for a bank rescue during a European finance minister conference call today. Photo/Gilad Rom via wikimedia commons If Spain does request funds to prop up More...
Will inflation save Europe?
In a recent column, Paul Krugman says that Europe essentially is committing “economic suicide” with its various “austerity” programs, with the only thing that can save the Continent being More...
Student debt bubble about to pop
It’s Coming. The next big bailout. Taxpayers will be on the hook for all the student loans handed out by the government which cannot be repaid. Take a look this from our friends at Zerohedge. Back in late More...
More economic illiteracy from the NY Times
Paul Krugman seems to be in a bi-partisan spirit in his latest column, claiming that Mitt Romney is a “closet Keynesian,” and he may be right. I’m not sure that Romney is a closet anything other More...
US Report: More hate groups in America, Tea Party on list, Occupyiers are not
The number of hate groups in the U.S. has grown each year for the past 11 years, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 2000 the center reported that there were 602 hate groups; in 2011 More...
Who are the real plutocrats? Krugman, Obama, banks & bailouts
In his most recent column, Paul Krugman praises the Wall Street protesters and claims that Republican politicians are in a panic over them. For example, he paraphrases a quote from Rand Paul. First, this is More...
Bailouts, Blunders, and Bad Policies – Krugman in Wonderland
While Paul Krugman’s column for May 2 is not exactly coordinated with the nearby editorial, “The Economy Slows,” there is correlation if one looks for it. For both Krugman and his editorial bosses, More...
Support Allen West to remove Socialist Ron Klein
Col. Allen West is running against incumbant Ron Klein (who defeated West in 2008 54.7% to 45.3%) and I believe we deserves “our” support. Now, I am speaking only for myself, not my DOB brothers, in More...
Where President Obama is failing
Let’s be clear that this list would look nearly identical if we were reflecting on the McCain administration. The differences between those two candidates were nominal in many ways and America would likely More...