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Herman Cain Endorses Newt Gingrich

January 29, 2012

Right before Florida’s primary on Tuesday, former candidate Herman Cain came out and endorsed Newt Gingrich on Saturday.  How much this endorsement will pay off  for Gingrich is unseen. Cain had strong support in Florida from his earlier campaign and still has support there.  However, mainstream media is  playing down the endorsement  saying that it [...]

Tagged as: Florida Primary, Fred Thompson, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich endorsements, Palin, Rick Perry, Tea Party

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A Pox On Both Your Houses!

July 25, 2011

Recent political posturing and game playing by both parties further justifies the necessity for a third, independent political party; one not aligned with the present choices (or lack thereof), but committed to revamping a system that if not totally broke, is in need of serious resuscitation. The present crisis by a duopoly and duplicitous political [...]

Tagged as: 2012 Elections, August 2 2011, bipartisanship, Boehner, corporate greed, deficit, Democrats, entitlement cuts, Eric Cantor, failure of leadership, incumbents, Obama, political compromise, raising debt limit, raising revenue, Reformed Liberal, Republicans, Taxes, Tea Party, Third Party, WhiteHouse v. Congress

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Why Vetting A Candidate Is Important Even To A Political Movement

April 27, 2011

Although The Tea Party is not officially a political party per se  and part of its’ membership has aligned with the Republican Party, it still needs to ascertain the credentials of any candidate seeking its’ support.  It is not enough for an individual to simply label themselves as a Tea Party candidate, mouth the words, [...]

Tagged as: Butasforme Reformed Liberal, Governor Walker, Tea Party, Tea Party Candidates, The Tea Party And How It Selects Its' Candidates, Vetting Candidates of A Movement

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Who Left The Biggest Pile In The Sandbox?

April 10, 2011

I don’t know but it seems to me that the fighting over the budget going down to the wire not only isn’t a good way to do business, but is more reminiscent of trying to get youngsters to play nice in the sandbox.  Each is concerned with building their own sandcastle rather than pooling their [...]

Tagged as: 2011 Budget, 2011 Budget Process, Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party

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Wisconsin Governor Walker Backs Down On Obvious Case Of Cronyism

April 7, 2011

Tea Party Governor Scott Walker reversed a promotion of the son of  Wisconsin Builders Association lobbyist and Walker campaign top donor Jerry Deschane,  after Democrats cries of cronyism.  Deschane’s son, Brian Deschane, was promoted from his previous $65,000 job with the Department of Regulation and Licensing  to head a division of the Commerce Department that overseas environmentand regulatory matters with an [...]

Tagged as: Campaign Donations, collective bargaining, cronyism and patronage, Deschane, lobbyists, Scott Walker, Tea Party, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill

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The Cream Doesn’t Always Rise To The Top–The New Republican Shell Game

February 27, 2011

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich makes a good case why the current trend of union bashing by the Republicans is not a result of being financially responsible and trying to curb the excesses of governmental spending.    The not too distant past disproves that.  It is simply done because they can!  As Reich so aptly writes [...]

Tagged as: GOP, Governor Scott Walker, Koch brothers, Middle East, pro-democracy, public sector unions, Robert Reich, Tea Party, Wealth In America, Wisconsin

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State Deficits v. Unions

February 22, 2011

After hearing the reports and watching the demonstrations in Wisconsin, there seems to be some very important facts left out of this debate.  First of all, the budget problems incurred at the federal and state levels are problems that have been the result of mismanagement.  Management makes the budgetary decisions, not middle class workers.  Poor [...]

Tagged as: collective bargaining, demagogue, Demonstrations in Madison, fall out of 2008 economic meltdown, government employees, Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee County, politics and unions, Reagan and air controllers, Republicans, scapegoat, Scott Walker, Scott Walkers Presidential aspirations, state budgets, state employees, states budget woes, States Budgets, Tea Party, U.S. set to become Third World Nation?, Union busting, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Governor's Risk-taking, Workers benefits

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It’s Jobs, Stupid!

February 16, 2011

Republicans have already forgotten the major issue that created their victory in the November Election, regaining the U.S. House of Representatives with the help of the Tea Party, and have returned to  promoting their partisan agenda. The lame duck session and their inflationary tax breaks were passed not in the name of curbing the national debt, but in the name of [...]

Tagged as: A U.S. Regime Change?, Boehner, Deficit Cutting, Democrats, Economy, GOP, Jobs, Jobs v. Deficit, Lame Duck Session 2010, Main Street, Obama 2011 Budget, Republicans, Taxes, Tea Party, Wall Street

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Be Careful What You Wish For…

December 21, 2010

Well, the Republicans got their extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the upper income with passage of the $858 BillionTax Bill, but they may have got more than they bargained for. With the infusion of The Tea Party and the spending spree by the Democrats, they had temporarily shirked the stigma attached to the [...]

Tagged as: Commentary Butasforme, Federal Reserve, GOP and Bush-era tax cuts, GOP leadership, Inflation, Nassim Taleb, Reformed Liberal, Relationship between big government and large corporations, Tea Party, trickle down theory

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What The Politicians Can Learn From Lisa Murkowski

November 16, 2010

#1 You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down!!! One of the most exciting elections this year  happened in the U.S. northerly region of Alaska with the re-election of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski.  Having lost the Republican primary to the Tea Party Movement’s Joe Miller and the endorsement and voting apparatus of the Republican Party, she [...]

Tagged as: Alaska U.S. Senate Race, Alaskan Election Murkowski, Profile In Courage, Republican Party, Tea Party, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Write-In of Lisa Murkowski

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Recession Over In June 2009–How Come We Missed It?

September 22, 2010

The National Bureau of Economic Research stated that the 18 months recession that began in December 2007, ended in June 2009 when the economy started growing again. This has been the longest recorded recession since the Great Depression, and any downturn now would represent the beginning of a new recession. However, for most of us [...]

Tagged as: Democrats, Recession Ended June 2009, Reformed Liberal, Republicans, Status of United States In The World, Tea Party, The New Reality

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