The brawl

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Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoonist and Animation Artist.
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The New Inheritance Tax

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Jeff Danziger, Syndicated Political Cartoonist

Leading Economic Indicators

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Soft Touch

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Matt Davies, CTNews

Fee Speech Zone

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Matt Davies, CTNews

Wall Street Occupies

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Things go better with Kochs

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John Cole, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune

Reality check

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Name that flaw..

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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

My Little Phony

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And yet another GOP debate..

This time it’s being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, and hosted by CNN. If you are watching on your computer, you can watch it live here.

Missing from tonight’s debate is Jon Huntsman:

Jon Huntsman won’t be at the debate. The former Utah governor and former ambassador to China is boycotting the showdown, to protest Nevada’s decision to hold its caucus on January 14, which could force New Hampshire to move its first-in-the-nation primary to December. Huntsman is placing all his chips on New Hampshire.

Will Herman Cain be asked to give us another rendition of his pizza song? Will Ron Paul fall asleep again? Will Rick Perry be in another stupor? Will Michele Bachmann make more biblical jokes?

Feel free to join in the fun and help us live-blog this thing..

On the campaign trail with Mitt Romney – and Bad Lip Reading.

More from “Bad Lip Reading“.

The Watering Hole: October 13, 2011 – The Seven Biggest Economic Lies

via Robert Reich:

THE SEVEN BIGGEST ECONOMIC LIES

The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy.

Here’s a short (2 minute 30 second) effort to rebut the seven biggest whoppers now being told by those who want to take America backwards.

The major points:

1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else.          Baloney. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and what happened? Most Americans’ wages (measured by the real median wage) began flattening under Reagan and have dropped since George W. Bush. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
2. Higher taxes on the rich would hurt the economy and slow job growth. False. From the end of World War II until 1981, the richest Americans faced a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent or above. Under Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 percent. Even after all deductions and credits, the top taxes on the very rich were far higher than they’ve been since. Yet the economy grew faster during those years than it has since. (Don’t believe small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax; fewer than 2 percent of small business owners are in the highest tax bracket.)
3. Shrinking government generates more jobs.                         Wrong again. It means fewer government workers – everyone from teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to safety inspectors and military personnel at the federal. And fewer government contractors, who would employ fewer private-sector workers. According to Moody’s economist Mark Zandi (a campaign advisor to John McCain), the $61 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House GOP will cost the economy 700,000 jobs this year and next.
4. Cutting the budget deficit now is more important than boosting the economy. Untrue. With so many Americans out of work, budget cuts now will shrink the economy. They’ll increase unemployment and reduce tax revenues. That will worsen the ratio of the debt to the total economy. The first priority must be getting jobs and growth back by boosting the economy. Only then, when jobs and growth are returning vigorously, should we turn to cutting the deficit.
5. Medicare and Medicaid are the major drivers of budget deficits. Wrong. Medicare and Medicaid spending is rising quickly, to be sure. But that’s because the nation’s health-care costs are rising so fast. One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid’s bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system. And since Medicare has far lower administrative costs than private health insurers, we should make Medicare available to everyone.
6. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.                                            Don’t believe it. Social Security is solvent for the next 26 years. It could be solvent for the next century if we raised the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. That ceiling is now $106,800.
7. It’s unfair that lower-income Americans don’t pay income tax. Wrong. There’s nothing unfair about it. Lower-income Americans pay out a larger share of their paychecks in payroll taxes, sales taxes, user fees, and tolls than everyone else.

Demagogues through history have known that big lies, repeated often enough,  start being believed — unless they’re rebutted. These seven economic whoppers are just plain wrong. Make sure you know the truth – and spread it on.

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Have we got a candidate for you!

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Where’s the fairness, the justice and the accountabilty? Is anyone listening? We are the 99%.

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Jeff Danziger, Syndicated Political Cartoonist

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Jack Ohman, Portland Oregonian

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Jack Ohman, Portland Oregonian

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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

The Bloomberg/WP Republican Presidential Debate in Hanover, N.H.

Tonight’s Bloomberg/Washington Post Republican Presidential Debate is at 8 p.m. ET in Hanover, N.H. You can watch it on PostPolitics.com. Also at from The Fix’s Chris Cillizza. You can also watch it at Bloomberg.com

Let’s see who will outdo himself or herself.. Who will write the next segment for Saturday Night Live.. Will anyone invoke Ronald Reagan after all the video out there this week?

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Jeff Danziger, Syndicated Political Cartoonist

A slice of life..

Something light and silly for a relaxing Sunday afternoon.. From Terry Border of “Bent Objects“.

Mr. P.B. O’Bread searches for his other half.

Republicans try to suppress the minority vote

From the Rachel Maddow Show:

Again from the Rachel Maddow Show:

This second video is powerful and should have every single American screaming in outrage.

This last video from last night’s show isn’t up on YouTube yet, so you will have to watch it here. It is the interview with 94 year old Dorothy Cooper of Georgia, who later moved to Tennessee, and who has voted in almost every election since the 1930’s. The only election she missed was once in the 1960’s, and she is now being prevented from voting. Why? She doesn’t have a photo ID because she has never driven a car. She has a lifetime of documents, but not good enough. Don’t miss this interview.

Here’s the link to the story of Dorothy Cooper.

We’re still waiting..

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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

Pushmi-pullyu

*The pushmi-pullyu (pronounced “push-me—pull-you”) is a “gazelle-unicorn cross” which has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body. When it tries to move, both heads try to go in opposite directions. Dr. Dolittle meets it on his voyage to Africa to save monkeys.

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John Cole, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune

A true visionary

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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

Steve Jobs

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John Cole, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune

Think different

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Like a rock

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Tunnel Vision

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Matt Davies, CTNews