president obama applauds women while the gop talks caterpillars 039romney mischief039
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coded racism: republicans resort to name-calling over 039bully039 039thug039 obama039s supreme court remarks: http:wwwpoliticalarticlesnetblog20120407coded-racism-republicans-resort-to-name-calling-over-bully-thug-obamas-supreme-court-remarks

out of touch out of luck out of money and the 039unzipped039 mitt romney
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coded racism: republicans resort to name-calling over 039bully039 039thug039 obama039s supreme court remarks: http:wwwpoliticalarticlesnetblog20120407coded-racism-republicans-resort-to-name-calling-over-bully-thug-obamas-supreme-court-remarks

039man of the people039 mitt romney039s delicate tax dance
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coded racism: republicans resort to name-calling over 039bully039 039thug039 obama039s supreme court remarks: http:wwwpoliticalarticlesnetblog20120407coded-racism-republicans-resort-to-name-calling-over-bully-thug-obamas-supreme-court-remarks

rachel maddow - house gop wears out tired repeal stunt
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july 11 2012congressman peter welch talks with rachel maddow about house republicans voting for the 33rd time to repeal president obama039s affordable care act and whether democrats can use health reform to their political advantage as the law and its benefits become increasingly popular with americans

house republicans reject payroll tax cut extension package
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http:nmatvhouse republicans have rejected a compromise package on extending a payroll tax cut unless congress can break the impasse working americans will see a payroll tax hike of two percent starting january 1st 2012barack obama has blamed republicans for opposing the extension even after he has compromised on the issue of the keystone xl pipeline project however this was not enough for congressional republicans who has come up with their own one-year extension proposalbut the senate has already gone on holiday with nobody to work with the house and the deadline of january 1st fast approaching it looks like americans will be getting a most unwelcome late christmas presenta tax hike

debt talks collapse boehner calls off talks
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president barack obama and house speaker john boehner tried for weeks to hatch a deficit-cutting deal that would fix the us039s budget problems on friday the effort collapsed keith on the latest with guest brian beutler of talking points memotune in weeknights at 8:007:00c on current tv

martin bashir - cantor039s meaningless health care vote
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june 29 2012rep jim moran d-va joins msnbc039s martin bashir to discuss why the house gop is pushing a meaningless vote on health care when its emphasis should be on job creation

the ed show - house republicans vote to repeal health care
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july 11 2012instead of focusing on jobs house republicans hold yet another vote to repeal health care reform ed schultz talks with house minority whip steny hoyer about the gop039s latest move

are we broke yet michael moore says no reality begs to differ
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quotthe nation is not broke my friendsquot opines guerilla filmmaker and amateur accountant michael moore quotwisconsin is not broke saying that the country is broke is repeating a big liequotrelax america it turns out that all that talk about local state and federal government being broke is just total bs or as the new york times puts it quotobfuscating nonsensea scare tactic employed for political endsquotmoore is a bit skimpy on evidence simply asserting that all we need to do to make things right is to shake down rich people who quothave divertedwealth into a deep well that sits on their well-guarded estatesquot the times039 case isn039t much more compelling quota country with a deficit is not necessarily any more 039broke039 than a family with a mortgage or a college loanquot says the paper of record quotand states have to balance their budgetsquotok but what should you call a family or a country that spent about 20 percent of gdp for each of the past 60 years while raising less than 18 percent of gdp each year and that is facing a massive balloon payment let039s call it entitlement spending on medicare and social security in the not-too-distant future and has to keep borrowing money just to pay today039s bills and has no chance of increasing its take-home pay to cover its expensesit039s a pretty safe bet that most of us would call that family or country broke or something along those lineshere are federal deficit projections from president barack obama admits in his own proposed 2012 budget that the red ink will continue to flow for as long he may be in officeand what about the states it039s true that states have to balance their budgets each year by law but that doesn039t mean they don039t spend more than they take in wisconsin alone is looking at a shortfall of 18 billion in the next year here039s what the center on budget and policy priorities says about the mismatch between spending and revenue: quot2012 is shaping up as states039 most difficult budget year on record thus far some 45 states and the district of columbia are projecting budget shortfalls totaling 125 billion for fiscal year 2012quotthen there039s local government the national league of cities is estimating that aggregate revenue shortfalls between 2010 and 2012 will end up totaling somewhere between 56 billion and 83 billionas president obama put it plainly in his state of the union address just a few weeks ago quotwe have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in that is not sustainablequotso call us broke or call us flush with cash whatever unless you think our elected officials are like charlie sheen - able to cure our problems simply willing it - our fiscal reality isn039t going to get better by pretending that we039re not in deep troublemaybe acknowledging that you039ve got a problem really is the first step to fixing it if that039s the case we039ve still got a ways to go before we even start doing the hard work of cutting out of control spending at every level of governmentin the meantime read quotthe 19 percent: how to balance the budget without raising taxesquot quotfailed states: after a long spending binge governors go begging for a handout it won039t be their lastquot and quothow to save cleveland: turning around america039s dying cities is difficult improbable and necessaryquotto read those stories and get charts and links to all the figures above go to http:reasoncomblog20110307are-we-broke-yet-michael-moorequotare we broke yetquot is written and produced by meredith bragg and nick gillespie about 130 minutes long go to reasontv for downloadable versions of our videos and subscribe to our youtube channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live

incredible keith olbermann special comment on taking back governance from politicians
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path to prosperity episode 3: 3 steps to pro-growth tax reform -- visualized
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quotcut cap and balancequot the debt ceiling and federal spending
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visit http:wwwdownsizinggovernmentorg for more information on how to cut unconstitutional and irresponsible federal spendingcato institute scholars dan mitchell and chris edwards evaluate the plans offered by republicans for lowering federal spending using a so-called quotcut cap and balancequot proposal that would make small cuts to federal spending in the short run cap federal spending at a higher share of gdp than the last years of the clinton administration and balance the federal budget using a tax-limited balanced budget amendment to the constitutionvideo produced by caleb o brown and austin bragg

michele bachmann039s tea party response to sotu rehearsal
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michele bachmann rehearses her sotu response for the tea party

critics of the so central los angeles tea party race baiting _ racism _ naacp
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critics of the so central los angeles tea party race baiting _ racism _ naacp

remy: raise the debt ceiling rap
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we may not be able to address our current debt ceiling woes but we can at least put them to a good beat visit the links below for more reason coverage on the debt deficit and government spending:five facts about the debthttp:reasoncomarchives20110725five-facts-about-the-debtthe facts about the debt ceilinghttp:reasoncomarchives20110718the-facts-about-the-debt-ceilireasoncom topics: government spending http:reasoncomtopicsgoverment-spendingquotraise the debt ceilingquot is the third of a series of collaborations between remy and reasontv to watch remy039s other videos go to http:youtubecomgoremymusic by remy video shot and produced by meredith braggdownload the mp3 and hd versions at http:reasontv the video channel for reason magazine and http:reasoncomlyrics: raise da debt ceilingraise da debt ceilingraise da debt ceilingraise da debt ceiling14 trillion in debtbut yo we ain039t got no qualmsdroppin 100 billsand million dollar bombs spending money we don039t havethat039s the name of the gamethey call me cumulo nimbusbecause you know i make it rainbail out all kind of carsgot all kind of whipsladies ask me how i get emi tell em stimulussocial security surplusoh guess what it039s gonei got my hands on everythinglike dominique strauss kahnain039t got no medicare trust fundson that039s just absurdspending every single penny thatwe see son have you heardain039t got no moral objectionsain039t got kind of complaintsain039t got no quantitativestatutory budget restraintssochorusyo we up in the fedand we living in stylespending lots of moneywhile we sipping crystalstill making it rainand yeah it be so pleasingwait not making it rain--we be quotquantitative easingquotqe1 qe2qe4 qe3dropping iou039sin every fund that i seeprinting the cashinflating the moniescallin up chinaquota-yo we straight out of 20039squotin the clubwe be louding outwhile to the market yeahwe be crowding outon the beach getting tanand sipping coronawe got a monetary plan--and it involves a lot of tonerchorus so if you look at the chartand examine the trendwe borrow 40 cents of everysingle dollar we spendand non-discretionary spendingincreases every daydo you have a comment for committeei make it rainmr speaker mr speakerwould you beam me upa congressperson cutting spendingcouldn039t dream me upwe039re gonna defaultif we follow this roadi should have thought of this14 trillion dollars agoi039m the king of the linksi039m a menace at tennisi039m sticking spinnaz on my rimspicking winnaz in businessif you039re looking for some cashit039s about to get heavyi got some big ol039 piles of moneyand guess what--they shovel readychorus