- During Bush Presidency, Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion | Think Progress – Travis Waldron
- After pushing the government to brink of shutdown last week, Republican Congressional leaders are now preparing to push America to the edge of default by refusing to increase the nation’s debt limit [unless Democrats] concede to large spending cuts. …
At the beginning of the Bush presidency, the United States debt limit was $5.95 trillion. Despite promises that he would pay off the debt in 10 years, Bush increased the debt to $9.815 trillion by the end of his term, with plenty of help from the four Republicans currently holding Congressional leadership positions: Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl. ThinkProgress compiled a breakdown of the five debt limit increases that took place during the Bush presidency and how the four Republican leaders voted:…
- GOP Rep. Broun: FDR Was A Communist (VIDEO) | TPMDC
- Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) thinks President Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved Joseph Stalin so much that he sent advisers to Russia to see "what Stalin was doing there so that FDR could replicate it here in the United States."
Broun was speaking Tuesday on the House floor about how the "original intent" of the Constitution was to promote the "general welfare of the nation, not welfare of individuals." The concept of promoting the "welfare of individuals" started with Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, he said: "Both progressives. Both had socialist beliefs."
- AZ Senate Passes Birther Bill With Overwhelming Majority | TPMDC
- The Arizona state Senate passed Wednesday the revised version of a bill that would require candidates to prove their citizenship before they can appear on state ballots.
The bill will now head to the state House for a final vote.
- Boehner Picks Up Pieces After Report Finds Spending Compromise Means Puny Cuts | TPMDC – 14 April 2011
- A CBO analysis of the spending cut compromise Democrats and Republicans reached last week that may have avoided a government shutdown has turned into a public relations nightmare for House Speaker John Boehner. …
Politico's David Rogers was the first to crunch the numbers, which we've since confirmed. When viewed from this perspective, Boehner appears to have gotten a raw deal, and the White House looks pretty savvy.
…Back when the House passed its farther-reaching spending cut bill — HR 1 — CBO found that it would reduce appropriations by $61 billion, but only reduce outlays by $9 billion. House Republicans didn't flip out when that news broke. …
Still, Republican and Democratic aides both say they're confident the compromise bill will pass both the House and Senate today. … We'll find out this afternoon around 4 pm.
- The Long Racial History of the Tea Party’s Deficit Trojan Horse – COLORLINES
- Concern over the size of the federal government has been a rhetorical Trojan Horse for conservatives for centuries. The origins of the American right’s hostility to the national government can be found in our young republic’s conflict over the institution of racialized slavery. The debate over whether slavery could exist or expand was the defining conflict in American politics from the founding, and its legacy has continued to shape our political discourse ever since.
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