We Serve It, Even When It’s Hard to Swallow: Current headlines and talking points filtered for your consumption and, sanitized for your protection…
Filtered Stew: Today’s Topics and Headlines (VIDEO)
Boehner and Cantor have come up with a convoluted procedure reminiscent of ‘deem-and-pass’ from 2010 to allow their caucus members to reject the deal while still being able to tell voters they didn’t reject the deal.
Filtered Stew: Today’s Top Topics and Headlines… (VIDEO)
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is now supporting a plan that has both the “unconstitutional” individual mandate and the “socialistic” public option. I guess they’re only bad ideas when the come from the Left. (No, it’s not a compromise.)
Filtered Stew: Occupy Explodes, Cain’s Gay Orientation, and Scrooge (VIDEO)
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Filtered Stew: Cain’s Hip-Hop, Koch Treason, and Occupy Latest (VIDEO)
“The Occupy Wall Street protests may not have a coherent agenda yet, but these arrests illustrate the fact that they are growing in strength, numbers, and momentum. That the NYPD felt obliged to arrest close one thousand protesters reveals a nervousness that wasn’t there before. This is the sort of action police usually take during a riot. The peaceful protests we’ve seen so far are anything but a riot.”
Filtered Stew: GOP Racism, Religious Frenzy and Elvis (VIDEO)
“Republicans are awash with funding from religious groups to enforce biblical laws against gays and women, but there is a bigger threat from Dominionists to form a theocratic government that is just now becoming evident to many Americans.”
Filtered Stew: Christie, Perry and Bachmann’s ‘Missiles of Rocktober’ (VIDEO)
09/28/2011 · 11:43 am By
Put it this way: what do you suppose the reaction would be if President Obama declared that the United States still has to “earn” American exceptionalism. I suspect the right would be apoplectic; his Republican rivals would speak of nothing else, and the White House would never hear the end of it.
Filtered Stew: Troy Davis, Repug Reality and Top Topics
09/23/2011 · 9:24 am By
Obama has never once apologized for America but millions of Americans have apologized for Bush.
Filtered Stew: The Fat-Cat-Job-Creator Lie (CHART)
09/21/2011 · 1:24 pm By
In the past 60 years, job growth has actually been greater in years when the top income tax rate was much higher than it is now.
Filtered Stew: GOP Austerity equals GOP Stupidity
09/14/2011 · 7:19 am By
According to economists, “in countries that really set out to do fiscal austerity, the results tend to not be good in the short term,” Elmendorf said. “I think the principle lesson of looking at countries like Greece and others is that it is a terrible situation to end up in, where one has to make drastic abrupt changes in policy.
Filtered Stew: GOP’s 9/11 Hypocrisy and Texas Is a Ponzi Scheme
09/12/2011 · 7:49 am By
President-Elect Obama’s advisors feared in 2008 that authorities would revolt and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama’s top transition advisers.
Filtered Stew: O’s Jobs Plan and 10 Things on Saint Reagan (VIDEO)
09/09/2011 · 12:47 pm By
This was a startling, feisty, combative and, in a way, commanding president that has rarely been seen on the stage in Washington. Something about being in the lion’s den — and staring straight at the GOP leadership — seemed to invigorate him.
Filtered Stew: GOP Debate Highlights, Misses and WTF? (VIDEO)
09/08/2011 · 12:26 pm By
Rick Perry has learned that ‘Entitlement Reform’ sounds way better than ‘Have some more catfood, Nana.’
Filtered Stew: Koch Operative Speaks and Mitt’s Union Corruption
09/07/2011 · 10:45 am By
Koch operative admits they orchestrate Tea Party events to help GOP candidates Americans for Prosperity, the front group founded by David Koch, orchestrates Tea Party events simply to elect more Republicans. Gentry said he met with Fred Young, a Wisconsin owner of engine manufacturing plants, at an Americans for Prosperity (AFP) event “designed to help [...]
Filtered Stew: Solyndra Was Bush’s Baby and Top Topics
“Solyndra was cleared to participate in this loan-guarantee program by President George W. Bush’s administration. He [McConnell] also did not mention that the legislation creating the loan-guarantee program, approved by the Republican-controlled Congress in 2005, received yes votes from — wait for it — DeMint, Hatch and McConnell.”