We’re living the conservative paradise … #1 – Government is shrinking #2 – Taxes are at the lowest they’ve been in over 60 years. #3 – Corporations are making ungodly amounts of money with low tax rates #4 – We have never had more free and unrestricted trade in the history of our country I’ve [...]

“The economy has effectively landed—nothing to suggest further overall weakening growth, nothing to suggest a rebound either.” ~Steve Blitz, ITG Investment Research’s chief economist As of today – investors can purchase U.S. Government 30 year treasuries for 2.49%.  When factoring in inflation … investors are willing to pay America in order to keep their cash [...]

Mitt Romney just said THIS yesterday on CNBC: “We ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies in place.” And when trying to explain his record of 47th in job creation out of 50 as Governor of Massachusetts – he is shown on [...]

Source for chart HERE.  The official numbers are supposed to come out in the next couple of months and economists are predicting that the poverty levels in America will be the highest they have been since the 1960′s.  So – first thought for many conservatives will be to blame President Obama for this of course. [...]

The Republican party does not care about jobs; they care about their donors.  Their donors are very wealthy individuals and corporations.  And since 57% of all capital gains go to the 1% – there is a direct correlation between the profits of the 1% and the profits of corporations.  Absorbing all of that … see [...]

Romney’s campaign is so desperate to not talk about Bain that they trotted out former George H. W. Bush chief of staff John Sununu to attack the president as a pothead foreigner who doesn’t have a clue about creating jobs and needs to ”learn how to be an American.” On Tuesday morning, John Sununu went on Fox News and [...]

“Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee [for the 2002 Winter Olympics]. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.” [...]

There is zero question in my mind that the conservative movement’s entire strategy is to make government unsuccessful thus shutting down the “hope and change” movement and convince the average voter that the President bears all responsibility.  They’re only taking this path because people are stupid enough to believe it.  Politics is a contact sport. [...]

Does anybody in Washington really want to solve our nation’s problems, or does everybody actually prefer partisan gridlock to their Constitutional duties? I have this idea for a tax plan that I believe would solve many economic problems.  Perhaps somebody can find something inherently wrong with my plan, and it just won’t work.  However, I have [...]

Senate Minority Leader – Mitch McConnell (R-KY) went on CNN today and was interviewed by Candy Crowley.  As the most senior member of the Republican party … he has been the chief political tactician in the Senate to block as much of President Obama’s agenda as possible.  And everything that Mitch McConnell says in this [...]