Shredding The Poor

REPORT: The Food Stamp Cuts The Media Won't Tell You About | Research | Media Matters for America:

Cable and broadcast nightly news programs have remained completely silent on pending automatic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- formerly known as food stamps -- which will have negative impacts on the economy and low-income groups...

Murdoch Hacking Returns

Major Phone Hacking Bombshell Drops | Crooks and Liars:

Prosecutors told a London court today that Murdoch’s top deputies Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson carried on a six-year affair while running the News of the World, and that they colluded together to hack celebrities’ phones.

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, the two biggest names in the ongoing trial over phone hacking, had an affair for at least six years, the jury in the trial was told on Thursday...

Fox Does Good

Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Out-Journalisms CBS News on Florida Woman’s Junk Insurance | Mediaite:

...Earlier today, Newsbusters outclassed most of the mainstream media by being honest about Obamacare, and now, The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple points out that Fox News has actually outclassed CBS News by partially correcting Jan Crawford‘s misleading report about a Florida woman who is unhappy about the new plan she’s being offered under Obamacare, at ten times the price of her old plan. Slow clap for conservative media today...

Warren Disputes Financial Myth

Elizabeth Warren Destroys Financial Crisis Myth:

...The study Warren was referring to refuted a common conservative argument blaming the Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act for forcing Fannie and Freddie to buy shoddy mortgages in poor neighborhoods. "It was the federal government that pushed the subprime loans … that pushed the Community Reinvestment Act," said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in a GOP primary debate during her presidential campaign, when asked who was to blame for the financial crisis.

However, the St. Louis Federal Reserve analyzed data in California and Florida -- two states hard-hit by the mortgage crisis -- and found that "the extensive purchases of risky private-label mortgage-backed securities by the GSEs were not due to affordable housing mandates..."

Issa And ACA Website

Report: 'Company Behind Troubled Obamacare Website Donated Heavily To Republicans In 2012' - CNN iReport:

...So.
Issa, who took donations from CGI is investigating CGI and Obamacare? Hummm
Did the CGI, company that created the Obamacare web site, intentionally create problems to make the Healthcare.gov site look bad? And for what reason? Hummm
And now the GOP point to the web site and claim it's Obama's HHS Secretary's fault? Hummm
The GOP got more campaign contributions than did Democrats. Hummm
Besides, CGI has run way over in costs and will stand to make a lot more money should the web site 'problems persist'.
Is there any incentive to get the website fixed?
This looks a little suspicious to me.
It also looks like more hypocrisy from the GOP and Issa.
Hey, who's going to investigate Issa and the GOP?

Another GOPer Heads To The Slam

Former Oklahoma state Rep. Randy Terrill convicted of political bribery | News OK:

...Terrill, a Republican, is accused of offering then-Sen. Debbe Leftwich, a Democrat, an $80,000-a-year state job at the medical examiner's office in 2010. Prosecutors allege he bribed her so she would not run for re-election in 2010...

Best ACA Rant Yet

Valid points. Right on the money.

Old Racist Gets New Job

Embattled IQ Scholar Reemerges As National Review Writer | ThinkProgress:

Jason Richwine, who parted ways with the Heritage Foundation over his research arguing Hispanics are intellectually inferior to whites, has quietly begun writing semi-regularly for the flagship conservative publication National Review...

PlagiRand

Rachel Maddow: Rand Paul ripped off Wikipedia - POLITICO.com:

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is accusing Sen. Rand Paul of lifting some material from Wikipedia for a speech he gave at Liberty University in Virginia.

The passages in question are descriptions of the movie “Gattaca,” about genetic discrimination in a dystopian future. Monday night, Maddow noted the similarities in Paul’s speech and the Wikipedia page...

Why Cons Hate The Gov Except When They Love It

Wisconsin Frac Sands Bill - Watching Scotty Blow, Continued - Esquire:

... If you're keeping score at home, Republicans hate federal land use policy, and the EPA, and the Endangered Species Act, and the entire Interior Department because they violate the sacred principles of "federalism" by taking away local controls and depriving the extraction industries of their god-given right to eat the Earth. They also hate local regulations because local control can deprive the extraction industries of their god-given right to eat the Earth. Conservatism is not opposed to the tyranny of faceless, distant power over the lives of ordinary people as long as the facelessm distant tyranny turns a buck.

Got it.

Rumbles In Tiananmen

Tiananmen Square attack sows terror in spiritual heart of China - latimes.com:

It could hardly have been a more audacious attack or one that was aimed more directly at the bull's-eye that is the spiritual heart of China.

At 12:05 p.m. Monday, a white sport utility vehicle entered a sidewalk and drove nearly 500 yards, plowing through tourists and police, until it stopped near the iconic portrait of Mao Tse-tung that hangs over the main gate in front of Tiananmen Square...

Somebody Needs To Talk To Somebody

My Confederate town - Salon.com

Killing Their Own: GOPer ACA

The Democrat's Version of Health Insurance Would Have Been Cheaper, Simpler, and More Popular (So Why Did We Enact the Republican Version and Why Are They So Upset?) | Robert Reich: While

...Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it's easy to forget that for years they've been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one that officially began October 1st, glitches and all...

The Foreign Born Candidate

Ted Cruz in Iowa: Has he sown the seeds of a 2016 GOP presidential candidacy? - NBC Politics:

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the hottest thing in tea party politics this year -- and the favored son of some activists -- almost overnight.

But after two days of events across Iowa, it is clear that using the state as a springboard to the White House in 2016 won’t come nearly as easily as his national fame...

O Ain't Perfect, People

The strange silence | The Confluence:

... It is pointless to tell these “fans” that there is nothing wrong with criticizing the president and his policies. It doesn’t make you the grand master of the local KKK or mean that you’ve failed Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, I might even go out on a limb to suggest that the reason Bill Clinton gets so much negative attention from these “fans”, in spite of the fact that his record is more liberal than Obama’s, is because these “fans” are projecting their pent up frustration on a legitimate white target as a proxy. They simply cannot overcome their fear of ostracism if they criticize the president in the strong terms they would like to use. Just thinking about it makes them feel uncomfortable and oogy.

This is ridiculous but it appears to be useless to point out that if people on the left don’t get over this conditioned Pavlovian response (courtesy of Obama’s campaign strategists) they are condemning their side to complete and utter fecklessness and continued perceptions of ineptitude. But I might suggest that this is exactly what the bad guys want. If you don’t raise a fuss, no effective regulation gets implemented and ideas that benefit most of the people in America never see the light of day and are considered politically impractical by the savvy people...

Banksters And The Lapdog Media

The lies that will kill America - Salon.com:

Here in Manhattan the other day, you couldn’t miss it — the big bold headline across the front page of the tabloid New York Post, screaming one of those sick, slick lies that are a trademark of Rupert Murdoch’s right wing media empire. There was Uncle Sam, brandishing a revolver and wearing a burglar’s mask. “UNCLE SCAM,” the headline shouted. “U.S. robs bank of $13 billion.”

Say what? Pure whitewash, and Murdoch’s minions know it. That $13 billion dollars is the settlement JPMorgan Chase, the country’s biggest bank, is negotiating with the government to settle its own rip-off of American homeowners and investors — those shady practices that five years ago helped trigger the financial meltdown, including manipulating mortgages and sending millions of Americans into bankruptcy or foreclosure. If anybody’s been robbed it’s not JPMorgan Chase, which can absorb the loss and probably take a tax write-off for at least part of it. No, it’s the American public. In addition to financial heartache we still have been denied the satisfaction of seeing jail time for any of the banksters who put our feet in cement and pushed us off the cliff...

Warren's Letter About Bank Criminals

Read Letter From Awesome Senator Warren Calling for Crooked Bank CEOs To Be Jailed (Video)

GOPer Doomed List

Meet The 37 House Republicans Who Could Lose Their Jobs For Shutting Down The Government:

...Democrats only need to lock up 17 additional seats in the November 2014 midterm elections to secure a House majority. The new polls show the recent government shutdown may cause as many as 37 Republicans to lose their House seats next year.

PPP pollsters surveyed 61 Republican-held congressional districts around the country from Oct. 1 through Oct. 18. They concluded that “Democrats not only have an opportunity to take back the House of Representatives next year, but that they could win a sizable majority if voter anger over the shutdown carries into 2014..."

Middle Class Revolt Coming

FreedomWorks Does Not Get It. Middle Class Is About To Revolt. - EgbertoWillies.com:

FreedomWorks simply does not get it. They actually believe that the American middle class will continue its path to self-destruction by maintaining a path of indentured servitude to the top two percent of the population. They continue to push the country to the right, a direction that is nothing more than a wealth transfer vector to corporations and plutocrats...

Klan Tea

Alan Grayson compares Tea Party to KKK: ‘If the hood fits, wear it’ | The Raw Story:

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is not backing down about a flippant remark comparing Tea Party Republicans to the Ku Klux Klan into a fundraising message despite criticism from at least one opponent.

“Members of the Tea Party have engaged in relentless racist attacks against our African-American President,” Grayson said in a statement to WKMG-TV published on Tuesday. “There is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation. If the hood fits, wear it...”