Steny Hoyer advises House dems to vote no on a "clean" debt ceiling increase.
Despite having been proven to be complete, 100% horseshit, Jerome Corsi's birther book hits the NYT best seller list. Never underestimate the ability of wingnuts to believe whatever crazy-assed thing they want to believe, facts be damned.
Bruce Bartlett, former economic adviser to Bush the Elder, points out the obvious: tax rates are at a historic low and the economy sucks. If tax cuts helped the economy, they'd be doing it now. "There is no reason to believe that reducing them further will do anything to raise growth or reduce unemployment," he writes.
A huge number of Americans are on food stamps, you say? Well then, obviously this is a good time to cut food stamps. The GOP's "let them eat cake" economics strikes again.
Get off your cell phone. Do it now.
The punditry's response to Paul Ryan's Medicare-slaying is way out of whack with the public's response.
Finally, you can't possibly power a large, energy-hungry, developed nation without nuclear power, right? Right?
