The GOP-led House's passage of a 2012 budget — engineered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — has laid the Republicans' values out in the open for all to see: Strip huge amounts of funding from Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs aimed at supporting middle- and lower-income Americans, all to balance th...
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3/6/2012: President Barack Obama responds to Fox News correspondent Ed Henry's accusation that he supports higher gas prices: "Ed, just from a political perspective, do you think that the President of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go higher? Is there anybody here wh...
On Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, Mitt Romney released his first campaign ad, which quotes President Obama saying "if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." But those weren't Obama's words; he was quoting a strategist for Sen. John McCain in 2008. In response, the Romney campaign has de...
Via Think Progress: "As ThinkProgress has detailed, the House Republican budget, authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), pays for massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans by cutting spending from programs that primarily benefit lower-income Americans. While giving an average ...
Via Think Progress: "In 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters's David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite different from the recovery tha...
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