Via Talking Points Memo.
So if our productivity has gone up and our wages have stagnated, where’s all that extra money going?
Answer: To people like Willard Mittens Romney.
Friday, April 13th, 2012, 12:18 pm
66,800
66,800 = my Buffett Number.
That’s roughly the number of millionaires whose tax rate is lower than mine—and odds are, most of them get representation in Congress too.
When are we going to demand they pay their fair share?
Thursday, April 12th, 2012, 5:40 pm
Yes, I now have a tumblr.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012, 5:07 pm
Memo to Rick Perry
RE: Your accusing the Obama administration of violating your state’s “right to make sovereign decisions”
Dear Ricky:
There’s this thing called the Constitution. I know that’s a pretty big word for you, so let’s just call it the Big Law For America. Anyway, the Big Law For America (Article I, Section 4) makes it pretty clear that states DON’T have the “right to make sovereign decisions” on voter ID when it says:
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chusing Senators.”
Seems pretty clear to me. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act into law, giving DOJ the power to block state election laws; thus, DOJ supersedes whatever “sovereignty” your state has.
Maybe you should take a few minutes to educate yourself next time you’re tempted to spout off like a damn fool.
Sincerely,
Me.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012, 12:28 pm
Another Open Memo to Rick Santorum
This memo is in response to a recent Fox News interview with Rick Santorum, in which he states that “I think the bottom line is that we do well among people who take their faith seriously, and as you know just like some Protestants, some Protestants are not church going, they are folks who identify with a particular religion but don’t necessarily practice that from the standpoint of going to church and the like, and I think, you know, with folks who do practice their religion more ardently I tend to do well.”
Dear Rick:
I go to church just about every week.
I take my faith very seriously.
It is precisely because of how seriously I take my faith that I will never in a million years cast a ballot for you or any other right-wing theocrat who’s for “small government” when it comes to economic and political justice for all of this nation’s people, but is all for making government bigger when it comes to imposing your sect’s values on everyone else’s lives.
In other words… bite me.
Sincerely,
Me.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012, 4:03 pm
Lucille and Mitt
Saturday, February 18th, 2012, 5:59 pm
An Open Memo to Rick Santorum
Dear Mr. Frothy Mix:
Since you consider me “gone from the world of Christianity,” then I’m sure you won’t consider the following statement to be a violation of Christian brotherhood:
Bite me.
Sincerely,
Me.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, 5:35 pm
Voter ID Laws and “Voter Fraud”
Here’s what I don’t get about the right-wing/ALEC push to enact voter ID laws as the solution to the mythical “voter fraud” problem—that is, aside from the fact that, with the exception of Indiana Republican elected officials, the problem doesn’t exist.
The right-wingers, in their ongoing attempts to paint President Obama and virtually every other elected Democrat in the country as illegitimate, have concocted this story about a Massive Voter Fraud Conspiracy™ funded by Big Union And Soros Money™, to register a bunch of nonexistent voters (or use a bunch of dead voters’ names) to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates.
Thus, the argument goes, we need laws requiring voters to show some kind of state-issued ID when they vote, so that the election officials can verify that they are who they say they are, because requiring people to show some ID will stop this Massive And Well-Funded Voter Fraud Conspiracy™ right in its tracks.
I want to issue a challenge to any Republican who actually thinks this is the case: Go into any high school in America—rich or poor, public or private, urban or suburban or rural—and ask the first 30 students you see if they know the name of someone who can get you a fake ID. If you don’t come away with at least one name, I’ll send you $10 via PayPal; if you get two or more names, you send me $10.
So why is it that you think this Massive And Union-And-Soros-Funded Voter Fraud Conspiracy™ is incapable of getting something that any pimply-faced 16-year-old with an Olan Mills school picture and $50 can get his hands on so he can go buy cheap, crappy beer when his parents are out of town for the weekend?
If this Conspiracy™ is really as Massive And Devious™ as you claim, couldn’t they just print up a new photo ID for everyone in a given district who died in the past year?
And if voter ID laws aren’t about stopping the Massive Left-Wing Voter Fraud Conspiracy™, could it be that they’re really about stopping ordinary people like this from voting?
Just a thought…
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 1:07 pm
Groundhog Day
You know, maybe the reason Punxutawney Phil went back into his hole is because when he came out, there was a huge crowd of people staring at him. If I opened my front door to find hundreds of people, many with cameras, standing there staring right at me, I think I’d go back inside too—and whether or not I saw my shadow would likely be among the least of my concerns.