If you have any right-wing friends who send you propaganda cut-and-pasted from right-wing sources, return the favor by sending them this Steve Benen post. Recent history in a nutshell.
See also “As Corporate Profits Rise, Workers’ Income Declines” and “Race to the Right.”
Here’s the Republican timeline:
11/2008 – A black Democrat is elected President.
Note – Voter Fraud – ACORN?
01/20/2009 – The black President’s sworn in. Even the CJ of the SCOTUS can’t believe it.
01/21/2009 – Holy Smoke! That ‘smoke’ accumulated trillions in debt in just a SINGLE DAY!!!
Ok, now we can start to blame all of the other sh*t we did on the black guy.
Later, on 01/21/2009 – 11/2012 – do anything and everything to make sure the black guys not re-elected.
And do as much damage to Democrats as possible.
11/2012 – do whatever it takes to steal, uhm, er, WIN, the elections for President, the House and Senate.
01/2013 – Let one party Republicans rule begin!
Note – Define voter fraud as any Democrat or non-white trying to vote.
IT’S THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE!!!!!!
“Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.â€
It’s right there on Page 4 of the official Standard & Poors “Research Update†–the actual report on what they did and why –published on August 5th .”
http://m.thomhartmann.com/blog/2011/08/mainstream-media-ignores-sp-attack-republicans
Good find. Ditto for the S+P explanation, thanks Doug H.
Moonbat… pass it on.
IMO, the left-wing wing needs to push the MSM to seriously cover this angle as part of the lead whenever the downgrade is mentioned, until its known as ‘The Tea Party Credit Downgrade”.
Right On! Mr. Hughes, many thanks.
The continuing concern about policy making certainly reinforced by recent statements by M. McConnell.
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/07
Maha, I linked to this on Ed Cone’s Word Up blog, and the righties totally ignored it. Boy, was that ever unpredictable! There’s just no telling what they’ll do next.
Bill — I think they filter out anything that doesn’t conform to their religion.
Doug,
Thanks!
And maha’s right – if it’s not on FOX, or Rush doesn’t say it, or a rightie loon opine on it in an Op-ed, or their minister preach it to them, then it’s a Liberal lie.
In their minds, Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs on a flat Earth circled by the Sun, and things have gone downhill ever since.
For people who don’t believe in evolution, they sure do seen to believe in devolution.
At least we have that in common.
Every time I see or hear one of them on the right, devolution is confirmed. I have to look leftwards to see evolution.