Rick Perry: Bum to Hero to Bum…Before the Campaign Starts!
This is how Neoconservatives…aka Neocons…aka the American Kinder, Gentler Fascists…work: they lie, then cover their lies with more lies, then let the truth come...
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada...
Here’s How Right Wing Obstruction Affects You Personally.
Life is not a newsreel, someone once said. It is not a sound bite. It is not the mere reporting of Republican Reich Wing...
Reagan the Best President? Not Even Close.
Reagan the best President? This recent Gallup poll may be the poll to end all polls...literally. It may only prove that people in the...
Laffer Is Laughable…But It’s Not Funny.
Does anyone believe that Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan's guru, the author and prime suspect in the catastrophe known as "voodoo economics" is really an...
A Better Way to Balance Budgets
The Republicans are not interested in balancing the budget. They are interested in cutting taxes. Does anyone deny that? We have a $14 trillion...
The Organized Republican Right-Wing Resistance
It takes very little to understand it. There is no point in trying to pretend that it does not exist. It is so blatantly...
Tea Parties for People Dumber than Dubya.
Tea Parties. Can you believe it? Take a look at the video, and, if you have time, look at the underlying video with the...
That’s What I Like About the South
by
Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy
It's an old song title. Made famous, I think, by a singer and bandleader, Phil Harris, from the great radio days of...
Trump Cuts Medicare and Social Security in 2020 Budget.
If re-elected, President Donald Trump has budgeted to cut Medicare by $848 billion. He will cut Medicaid by $1.5 Trillion and cut $25 billion...
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
How long must we put up with this indecisive attitude on the part of Congress? Whom do they work for anyway--health care lobbyists? It...
Are Neocon Republicans in Danger of Becoming a Pathetic Joke?
Let's get right to the point. If Rush Limbaugh is the leader of your political party, what do you expect? If a man who...
Forty Republicans, Five Democrats and Health Care Reform
We now have a health care plan that passed in the Senate and one that passed in the House of Representatives. Holding up true...
Barbarians Inside the Gates
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Joseph O’Shaughnessy
Yesterday, Monday, July 10th, the President announced his nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy. He nominated an...
How to Fix Social Security and Balance the Budget
Michael Hiltzik’s August 6 column in the LA TIMES was pretty thought-provoking on the current Social Security dialogue. And it leads to some rather...