Sunday, March 17, 2013

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Sarah Palin’s CPAC Speech Trashes Establishment GOP, Calls Obama Liar, Reality Star

by Garrett Quinn | 1:07 pm, March 16th, 2013VIDEO» 995 comments
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivered the most scathing and electric rebuke of President Obama at CPAC yet by calling him a liar along with a litany of other one liner insults during her lunchtime address that repeatedly brought the crowd to its feet. Later in her speech Palin unleashed her wrath on Karl Rove and the assorted political consultants that she so despises.
After being introduced by Senator Ted Cruz in a surprise appearance, Palin unleashed a laundry list of zingers in Obama’s direction on guns, criticizing calls for a ban assault weapons and expanded background checks.
“It’s not about the bad guys, it’s all about the led. That chunk of metal solely did the crime,” she said, snarkly ripping the president’s gun proposals.
“That’s like saying that pork made me fat,” Palin said, moving quickly to her next zinger.
“More Background checks? Dandy idea Mr. President, should have started with yours,” Palin said to roaring laughter.
Palin trashed Obama for his nearly all of his policies from guns to the budget to “free Obamaphones and prophylactics.” At one point she ripped Obama’s budgetary practices, calling him a liar and echoing Congressman Joe Wilson‘s 2009 outburst. “Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama, you lie!”she said, again drawing applause and cheers.
At one point Palin, a former reality TV star, ripped Washington as a whole for lacking “leadership” and being a “reality television show.”
Some of her other zingers:
  • “We don’t have leadership coming out of Washington. We have reality television.”
  • “He’s got the rifle, I got the rack.” When referencing a gun rack gift for her husband, Todd.
  • “Remember No drama Obama? Now it’s all drama Obama.”
  • My advice to college kids is: You gotta be thinking Sam Adams not drinking Sam Adams.
    • After she completed her thorough trashing of the president she took a dig at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg by drinking a big gulp on stage and expressing her disgust at the soda band that he attempted to implement.


    Still, she was not done as the consultant class and Karl Rover were next in her line of fire. Palin delivered a scathing rebuke of the failed 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney without mentioning him or any of the consultants involved by name just saying that they continue to make millions even though they repeatedly lose elections.
    “If these experts keep losing elections keep raking in millions, if they feel that strongly about who should run in this party they should buck up and run or stay in the truck. The architects can head on back to the Lone Star State and put their name on the ballot,” she said in a clear reference to Rove.
    This was Palin’s second CPAC appearance.
    Watch full speech below via CSPAN:
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    Saturday, March 16, 2013


    Maher And Maddow Battle GOP Panelist Over Ryan Budget: ‘Ballsy’ To Propose That After ‘You Get Your Ass Kicked’

    by Josh Feldman | 10:57 pm, March 15th, 2013VIDEO» 149 comments
    Bill Maher opened the panel discussion on his show tonight with the competing budgets released by Republicans and Democrats this week. And while he criticized all the different budget proposals for avoiding the Social Security third rail like the plague, he particularly had issues with Paul Ryan‘s budget not just for increasing defense spending, but for proposing basically the same thing that he andMitt Romney ran on last year. Maher said he thought this was all decided already, remarking, “That is a little ballsy after you get your ass kicked.”
    Jared Bernstein said Ryan’s budget repeals so much so unfairly that there is no way to take his proposal and bring it to the middle in any sensible compromise. Former Republican congressmanTom Davis pointed out that his party kept the House in 2012, so maybe that was a sign that the people wanted divided government, but Maher jumped in to say that was more due to gerrymandering than anything else.
    Davis changed the subject to ask where Obama’s budget is. Bernstein dismissed his point and said budgets are never binding documents, merely negotiating tactics. Maher highlighted the budget being touted by the progressive caucus in the House, which, like Ryan’s budget, reduces the deficit by a couple trillion dollars, only through different ways like increased taxation on the super-rich.
    Davis quipped, “The electorate elects Democrats because they like these programs, and then they elect Republicans so they don’t have to pay for them.” Maddow shot back by saying Ryan’s budget basically takes care of the rich while calculating that the poor don’t really need access to affordable health care. However, Maher did go out of his way to say that even he finds taxes on the wealthy in California to be ridiculous.
    Bernstein and Davis got into a back-and-forth over the specifics of both sides’ budgets, with Bernstein pointing out that the Ryan budget does not touch defense. Maher was amazed that Ryan goes so far as to call for increased defense spending. Maddow said that Republicans can’t seriously call themselves fiscally responsible if they’re going to push something like that.
    Watch the video below via HBO:
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    Friday, March 15, 2013


    CHART: Ryan’s Tax Plan Overwhelmingly Benefits The Rich

    CHART: Ryan’s Tax Plan Overwhelmingly Benefits The Rich
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    The central tax reform in Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) new budget blueprint — which seeks to create just two income tax brackets of 10 and 25 percent — overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy.
    The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center crunched the numbers and found that Ryan’s proposal would cost roughly $5 trillion over 10 years. On average, his plan would lower taxes on people making more than $1 million per year by a whopping $400,000. From there the benefits plummet.
    Incomes between half a million and one million dollars would owe about $50,000 less, on average. People earning between $20,000 and $50,000 would save just hundreds of dollars.
    Ryan’s plan also cuts spending by some $4.6 trillion over the next decade, targeting programs like Medicaid and the portion of the budget that includes Pell Grants and food stamps. He insists his tax cuts will spur significant economic growth, and he promises to pay for them by closing unspecified tax loopholes, deductions and credits — ideally on high incomes.
    “You can actually plug loopholes and subject more of higher earners’ income to taxation through a lower tax rate,” Ryan said. “We think that’s smarter.”
    His promise mirrors that of Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election. The problem, asnumerous independent experts concluded, is that finding that much revenue in tax expenditures would require raising effective taxes on the middle class.
    [Chart by TPM’s Christopher O’Driscoll]
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    Saturday, March 9, 2013

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/nra-congress/#

    How the NRA exerts influence over Congress

    The National Rifle Association uses campaign expenditures and a rating system based on members' voting histories to exert influence over members of Congress. Use this graphic to see who gets the most -- and least -- support.
    261 candidates received donations in 2012
    Nearly all of the contributions to House
    and Senate candidates went to Republicans.
    DEMOCRATS
    25
    REPUBLICANS
    236
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