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5 Oct 2011

Rick Scott’s Underhanded Effort To Privatize Prisons Thwarted By Court

Here's how Florida's prisons were nearly privatized without anyone knowing about it. In a rather arrogant and high-handed move, Republican lawmakers tucked a secret provision into the budget right at the end of the frenzied 2011 legislative session requiring private companies to take over 29 prisons by January 1st. Of course, it was all intended to union-bust and replace nearly 3800 union employees with minimum-wage private company replacements
Here's how Florida's prisons were nearly privatized without anyone knowing about it. In a rather arrogant and...
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9 Aug 2011

ALEC’s creepy influence in Wisconsin (with recall angle!)

Republican state senators Sheila Harsdorf, Luther Olsen, Alberta Darling and Randy "Bed" Hopper all believe that lowering taxes on moist soft products is a serious enough priority for Wisconsin families that they fought to insert the moist snuff tax preference provision into the already highly contentious state budget.
Republican state senators Sheila Harsdorf, Luther Olsen, Alberta Darling and Randy "Bed" Hopper all believe that...
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5 Aug 2011

2 more fake companies donated millions to Romney

Yesterday the big news in the internets was the news that a company was incorporated, donated a million dollars to a super PAC associated with Mitt Romney and then disolved, all within the space of about 4 months. The building the business supposedly was based at in Manhattan had never heard of the company. All this has caused complaints to be filed to the SEC and DOJ. It turns out that two other companies have done something very similar for Mitt, yet it appears only one station has reported it, and that is a local Fox affiliate of all places.
Yesterday the big news in the internets was the news that a company was incorporated, donated a million dollars to a...
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4 Aug 2011

Dozens of Florida Republicans at ALEC legislative conference courtesy of taxpayers, lobbyists

Dozens of Florida legislators are in New Orleans this week for three days of pro-business pep talks, policy seminars and great food. The annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, features topics such as public pensions, Medicaid reform and tax policy, with such conservative stalwarts as economist Arthur Laffer and former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey.
Dozens of Florida legislators are in New Orleans this week for three days of pro-business pep talks, policy seminars and...
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4 Jul 2011

Campaign finance reform: A better political system depends on better judges

Last week, Armando posited reproductive choice as reason enough in itself to support President Obama's re-election. It's a view I've long shared about Democrats, in general. But this year has made it clear that there are even more dangerous threats from Republicans, even from Republican judicial appointments.
Last week, Armando posited reproductive choice as reason enough in itself to support President Obama's re-election. It's...
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28 Jun 2011

Republican Rep in Wis. Disqualified From Recall Ballot

In a major development in the Wisconsin recall elections, the state's Government Accountability Board today ruled Rep. John Nygren, one of two Republicans who filed to challenge Democratic Sen. Dave Hansen, is disqualified from the ballot for lack of adequate signatures
In a major development in the Wisconsin recall elections, the state's Government Accountability Board today ruled Rep....
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19 Jun 2011

Wisconsin Republicans file fake Democrats in six recall primaries

Democrats decried the tactic, then worried that Republicans might take their strategy a step further by forcing primaries in only some of the races. That would cause some general elections to be delayed but not others, leading to varied election dates and possible voter confusion.
Democrats decried the tactic, then worried that Republicans might take their strategy a step further by forcing...
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25 May 2011

GOPer supports federal default unless energy, education departments axed

At a town hall event last week in Georgia, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) had a particularly absurd ransom to demand for raising the debt limit. In an exchange recorded by True South Radio and uploaded on YouTube, Broun said that he wouldn t vote to hike the ceiling without major cuts.
At a town hall event last week in Georgia, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) had a particularly absurd ransom to demand for raising...
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25 May 2011

GOP Rep. Amash’s tea party supporters boot senior citizens, reporters from event

One way Republicans have found of dealing with the bad press and hostility they've faced in public meetings over their highly unpopular budget plan has been what's actually a pretty typical Republican response: censorship. They've clamped down on reporters and citizen journalists, barring them from recording the events.
One way Republicans have found of dealing with the bad press and hostility they've faced in public meetings over their...
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12 May 2011

Alan Simpson’s Social Security lessons

Alan Simpson's stunningly ignorant and arrogant exchange with HuffPo reporter Ryan Grim is making the rounds. In that interview, Simpson steadfastly proclaimed ignorance of Social Security's actual demographic statistics, and then proceeded to dismiss the information as unbelievable. Simpson and the catfood commission have advocated raising the retirement age, with Simpson doggedly repeating the falsehood that people are living longer.
Alan Simpson's stunningly ignorant and arrogant exchange with HuffPo reporter Ryan Grim is making the rounds. In that...
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12 May 2011

Republican budget would create millions more uninsured

Medicaid has become the Republican's primary target for massive budget cuts in the health sector. Which makes a new study from Kaiser Family Foundation and Urban Institute on the Republican budget, which would turn Medicaid into a block grant program and repeal the Affordable Care Act, even more critical. KFF and the Urban Institute find that the Republican budget could create an additional 44 million uninsured over the next ten years.
Medicaid has become the Republican's primary target for massive budget cuts in the health sector. Which makes a new...
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30 Mar 2011

Republicans consulting Chevron and lobbyists on offshore drilling bills

House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are in the process of readying three bills on offshore drilling, and it seems that the Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA), has taken a page out of Dick Cheney's book on formulating energy policy. Which means, if you want to know the details, you need to either be a select Republican or on the guest list of Hastings':
House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are in the process of readying three bills on offshore drilling,...
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29 Mar 2011

Paranoid Michelle Rhee blames her "enemies" for cheating report

Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero because while working for the public she combined corporatist policy with open contempt for the public. An ostensible Democrat, she now advises Republican governors on how best to battle the nefarious teachers' unions, which, in her reckoning, are almost solely responsible for poor student performance. Her solutions to the "education crisis" mostly involve the privatization of public schools. Her qualifications, besides having all the currently fashionable opinions, are her successes as head of Washington's schools. Test scores increased during her tenure! In some places, they increased dramatically!
Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero...
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26 Mar 2011

The Deindustrialization Of America

The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don t believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class.
The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized,...
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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