Morning Bunker Report: Sunday 4.29.2012
——————————WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY BIPARTISANSHIP WAS NEVER AN OPTION: GOP’s Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration — As President Barack Obama was celebrating his...
View ArticleCollege tuition, room and board, student-loan debt: students today vs. one...
NY TIMES: “For the past three decades, increases in college tuition have outpaced the overall rate of inflation, and increases in room and board have risen even faster. That has driven a substantial...
View ArticleMorning Bunker Report: Saturday 5.19.2012
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–— A Romney Presidency: Day One – this is from the Romney campaign itself, describing how “President Romney” would approve the Keystone pipeline,...
View ArticleYour tax dollars at work: the do-nothing Republican House did more of that...
244 members vote to repeal Obamacare, for the 31st time. House Republicans just spent 89 hours to repeal Obamacare instead of, you know, doing something that actually helps people. image: demnewswire...
View ArticleAmerica doesn’t need a Birther-in-Chief
… And we still want to see your tax returns, Romney. President Obama: “I can’t speak to Governor Romney’s motivations. What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions, that...
View ArticleThe House Republicans extremely unserious debt-reduction plan
Steve Benan: “House Republican leaders presented a debt-reduction “plan” to the White House yesterday, which GOP officials insist is a “serious” offer. To help underscore why it’s so very difficult to...
View ArticleThe modern Republican ethos: the worst thing you can do for your country is...
The problem with a system of government designed the way ours is designed is that, for it to work that way it should, all its component parts have to share a basic commitment that government should,...
View Article“It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to...
“Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the party is against everything and for nothing. Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on...
View ArticleRobert Reich: why Republicans don’t care what the nation thinks
Turns out, they really don’t need to care. Reich’s explanation, in part: Public opinion is already running strongly in favor of President Obama and the Democrats, and against the GOP. In the latest...
View ArticleAnarchism is not conservatism: how the rightwing fringe is destroying the GOP
This week, 151 House Republicans voted to allow income taxes to increase on all Americans if taxes increased for the most wealthy. Only 85 Republican members voted to reinstate tax cuts for 98 percent...
View ArticleHouse Republicans: dreaming of anarchy
House GOP eyes default, shutdown – POLITICO: “Republican leadership officials, in a series of private meetings and conversations this past week, warned that the White House, much less the broader...
View ArticlePresident Obama dares Republicans to cause another economic crisis
“To even entertain the idea of this happening, of the United States of America not paying its bills, is irresponsible. It’s absurd. As the speaker said two years ago, it would be — and I’m quoting...
View ArticleThe annual lobbyist-funded House Republican Retreat starts today
Buzzfeed: “House Republicans Wednesday will decamp to Williamsburg for their annual retreat amidst heavy security, including a private police force on the Kingsmill resort. The retreat, which is funded...
View ArticleSelections from the annals of ‘Republicans are terrible people’
They really are just awful… “MSNBC just aired an audio clip of Rush Limbaugh mawkishly sobbing in a toddler’s tone, “I don’t want to die,” in what Limbaugh, uh, humorously charged was a White House...
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