Category Archives: The Poor

The GOP Road to 2016, One Fool at a Time: Scott Walker

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Wisconsin’s little twerp of a Governor is writing his memoir, which is leading many to believe he”l make a bid for the GOP nomination in 2016. Not for nothin’, but if I was a Republican I’d want a Presidential candidate … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Policy, Education, Equal Pay, Governors, Labor Unions, Labor Unions, Politics, Poverty, Reproductive Rights, Republicans, Scott Walker, State Legislation, Taxes, Tea Party, The Poor, Voter Suppression | Tagged gop, republicans, Scott Walker budget, Scott Walker president, Scott Walker Wisconsin, tea party

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Yes Folks, They Really Think Like This

Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by Cindy Rose

My Guns Are My Business… Your Prescriptions, Gotta Register Those Tennessee, one of the southern bastions of right-wing idiocy, and currently under rule by a merry band of Teapublican lunatics, is as confused about the notion of personal freedom as … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Gun Control, Law Enforcement, LGBT Issues, LGBT Rights, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, Same-Sex Marriage, Social Programs, State Legislation, Tea Party, The Poor, Women in Politics | Tagged gop, gun control, Joe Carr, marriage equality, republicans, Shawn McClusky, Stacey Campfield, Sue Everhart, tea party, Tennessee Tanf, the poor, Tucson free guns

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Early Reflections On Francis The First

Posted on Friday, March 22, 2013 by Ken

Warning: The following post delves into Ken’s take on the Pope and various religious issues. Anyone not interested in such matters is fairly warned. I am not Catholic, but freely admit that I am somewhat taken with the new Pope. Quite frankly I … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Ethics, LGBT Issues, Politics, Religion, Rick Santorum, The Poor | Tagged Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis The First, The Catholic Church, Wise Use

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Headlines from “The Party of Stupid”

Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Dear Republicans, This is what your elected officials are spending their time on: Not Understanding the Constitution… Again Just a little over a week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit shot down Florida’s mandatory welfare drug … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Education, Government, Gun Control, Income Inequality, NRA, Politics, Republicans, Social Programs, State Legislation, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Poor | Tagged congress, divorce, education, gop, gun control, republicans, school vouchers, Stephen Fincher, tea party, Tedd Gassman, the poor, welfare drug testing

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Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“…men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.” –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America In 2007, a teenager in a depressed county of Northeastern Pennsylvania, recently bereft of … Continue reading →

Posted in ALECexposed, Arizona Shenanigans, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Border Security, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Corporate donors, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Crime & Punishment, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Financial Collapse, Government, Gun Control, Human Rights, Immigration, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Labor Unions, Liberals, NRA, Politics, Poverty, Progressives, Racial Issues, September 11, State Legislation, Students, superPACs, Taxes, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street, Wisconsin Recall | Tagged barack obama, campaign finance, campaigns, CCA, citizens united, corporate greed, corrections, crime and punishment, Democrats, detention, drug policy, drugs, economics, GEO Group, healthcare, immigrants, immigration, jail, justice, law and order, laws, minorities, policy, prison, prisoner abuse, private prison industry, republicans, state legislation, students, wall street, war on drugs

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Jindal’s Budget Still Balanced on the Backs of the Poor

Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Louisiana’s Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has reversed himself on his plan to stop providing hospice care for medicaid patients, which we told you about in an earlier post. Lest you think it’s a sign of a kinder, gentler Governor, think … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Healthcare, Medicaid, Politics, Republicans, Social Programs, State Legislation, Tax Cuts, The Poor | Tagged bobby jindal, economic justice, gop, healthcare, Louisiana, republicans, tax cuts

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Gerrymandering, Jury-Rigging and Judicial Rewriting Are the Wave of the Future, Conservative Soldiers!

Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2013 by Marc Belisle

Greetings and salutations, fellow captains of industry and our Republican lapdogs! I’m wiring you this electronic mail-o-gram from the deck of my mega-yacht Duchess’ Bounty. What wizardry is this, you may ask, that such a feat is possible from the … Continue reading →

Posted in ALECexposed, Banks and Finance, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Laws, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Debt and Budget, Deregulation, Economic Justice, Economic Policy, Education, Election, Election Fraud, Employment, Ethics, Financial Bailouts, Financial Collapse, Government, Healthcare, Incarceration, Income Inequality, Justice, Koch Brothers, Politics, Primaries, Privatization, Racial Issues, Republican Campaign Donors, Republican Leaders, Satire, State Legislation, Stimulus, superPACs, Supreme Court, Tax Cuts, Taxes, Tea Party, The Constitution, The Economy, The Middle-Class, The Poor, The Wealthy, Wall Street | Tagged ALEC, Charles and David Koch, constitutional, Electoral College, gerrymandering, judicial challenge, satire, vote rigging, voting rights, wall street

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If Only There Were Meds For Ignorance

Posted on Friday, January 25, 2013 by Cindy Rose

To quote Napoleon Bonaparte: “In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” I’ll take that a little further: In Republican politics, stupidity is the only litmus test. The stupid are on the march again in their never- ending attempt (however convoluted) … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Gun Control, LGBT Issues, LGBT Rights, Politics, Poverty, Republican Propaganda Machine, Republicans, Social Programs, Social Security, The Poor, Women | Tagged congress, gop, gun control, lgbt issues, Republican War on Women, republicans, the poor

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Part of Jindal’s Tax Plan: Poor Will Have to Die Quicker

Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Remember back in 2009, when Sarah Palin made up that nonsense about “death panels” in the Affordable Care Act and told her Facebook fans: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby … Continue reading →

Posted in Affordable Care Act, Healthcare, Medicaid, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, Social Programs, State Legislation, The Poor | Tagged Affordable Care Act, bobby jindal, death panels, gop, healthcare, Louisiana, republicans, the poor

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Freedom of Speech vs. Wall Street’s Interests

Posted on Saturday, January 5, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” –Henry David Thoreau You know that civil rights are in dire straits when Rage Against the Machine starts to seem eerily prescient. … Continue reading →