Never Forget...who the GOP really is

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Wednesday October 27, 2010 · 9:22 AM PDT

2010/10/27 · 09:22

As we go through this election season try to remember what it was like when the GOP was in charge:

There are the ones you know why you hate:

George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Alberto Gonzales
John Ashcroft
Christine Todd Whitman
Gale Norton
Spencer Abraham
Condoleeza Rice
Harriet Miers
John Poindexter
Paul Wolfowitz
Richard Perle
John Negroponte
John Bolton

After the jump we'll remind you of the ones they appointed who affected everyday life for millions, but whose names you may not know:

trillian

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Wednesday April 21, 2010 · 6:06 AM PDT

2010/04/21 · 06:06

After watching our teevee news anchors struggle mightily to explain the Goldman Sachs suit to middle America (okay...after watching The Daily Show’s recapitulation of news anchors struggling mightily to explain the Goldman Sachs suit to middle America)it is clear that even a lay person who has never set foot on Wall Street could do better. So here it goes.

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Saturday September 26, 2009 · 10:54 AM PDT

2009/09/26 · 10:54

We've all been talking about what a hypocrite Sonny Perdue is along with all Georgian Republicans in general. They like to dis the federal government and federal programs and federal spending every chance they get. But when push comes to shove they can't take care of their own and have to run hats in hand to the federal government for help. But the real situation is probably worse than you know.

trillian

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Saturday August 15, 2009 · 6:39 PM PDT

2009/08/15 · 18:39

Death and dying...and money. I talk to people about it all day, every day. It's what I do for a living. I know how my clients think about it. More importantly I know how their children think about it...And if you want to see folks pull the plug on Granny faster than you can say boo, just take government OUT of health care. End Medicare and you'll see families pull the plug on Granny so fast your head will spin.

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 7:06 AM PST

2009/01/21 · 07:06

Now that we know that many hedge funds inflated or faked their earnings, now that hedge fund managers are disappearing left and right, now that we now these hedge funds were not the greatest thing since sliced bread, now that we know that many hedge funds were nothing more than Ponzi schemes...

perhaps we (and I mean YOU Chuck Schumer) should revisit whether they should only get taxed at the 15% capital gains tax rate on what they earn instead of the 35% ordinary income rate that the rest of us pay.

trillian

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 2:09 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 14:09

and really, who doesn't? She's indispensible daily reading. But there is another national treasure out there blogging away from the great state of Alaska.

A blogger who puts more wit, intelligence and grace into a single sentence than Sarah Palin does into an entire word salad. (I realize that's not saying much.) I am talking of course about Mudflats.

A few key graphs from today's piece on Sarah Palin's wardrobe...

trillian

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 7:31 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 19:31

Help a fellow Kossack out. I and a few friends will be either in the Sonoma area or the Santa Clara area on election night.

Where should a bunch of East Coast Foodie Progressives go to watch the election results and get some great food? Any recommendations will be appreciated.

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 8:24 AM PDT

2008/10/11 · 08:24

In Sevierville Tennessee

"A Sevierville woman apparently killed herself as sheriff's deputies prepared to evict her from her foreclosed home, police said."
...
"The family's attorney, Herbert S. Moncier, said that Ross' husband was fighting the foreclosure of their home in court at the time, and court records show a judge granted him another 10 days to appeal his case."

I'm sure Hannity and Rush will argue that this was loan to those scary minorities but according to this site Sevierville is 95% white.

Let's continue to explode the right wing talking point that the Community Reinvestment Act is to blame for this mess.

trillian

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 11:45 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 11:45

There are a handful of misstatements that are becoming part of the accepted dialogue about this election and we need to know about and combat them at every turn. Once these things become part of the common zeitgeist it's over.

trillian

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 10:05 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 10:05

No one in real small town American could have fallen Palin's over-the-top Daisy Mae shuck and jive caricature of small town americans and their ruralisms.

She's insulted those of us who live in small towns and tried to rob of us our dignity.

Well, that can't be done. Want an example of how real small town Americans speak and act about serious matters and in times of crisis?

In 2006 real small town West Virginians took part in a special coal mine safety forum organized by Rep. George Miller (Calif.) ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, after Republican leaders refused to schedule a hearing on the rash of mine deaths while they were still in the headlines.

Some excerpts below

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 9:31 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 09:31

Don't take this the wrong way; but I don't know you. I may find what you are writing about the current financial crisis to be immensely sensible, even brilliant. But this isn't my area of expertise and I don't know you. I don't know what you know and therefore I don't know how to judge the feasibility of your suggestions.

So I am doing what I always do when I want to know more about something. I'm trying to find the best and brightest and see what they have to say about it.

trillian

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 1:17 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 13:17

How about dkos sponsoring a Netroots Economic Summit ASAP where you ask Krugman and Roubini and Brad DeLong, and Bill Gross of PIMCO etc., bright minds from all over the spectrum, the folks whom Cogress and Paulsen and Bush and Pelosi et al aren't even bothering to consult, to explain it to us.

Why not give them a forum? Livestream it.

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