Kyle Bell

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter all but confirmed yesterday that he was not running as a Democrat in next year’s election when he announced that he would oppose the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA would essentially make it easier for employees of companies to form and join unions. Specter, a moderate Republican, is facing [...]

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to tax the bonuses of AIG employees 90%. This is an effort to recover the $165 million in bonuses that the company gave out, despite receiving over $100 billion in federal bailout money. Amazingly, a majority of Republicans voted against this bill. It seems that they will vote [...]

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I thought I would share a couple of political cartoons that I ran across today. This first one is by Mike Keefe of The Denver Post. As the cartoon points out, the so-called “Country First” Republican Party is now rooting for our president to fail. What a reversal! This second cartoon is from Pat Bagley [...]

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If you watched the Daily Show last night, Jim Cramer was ripped a new hole by Jon Stewart. He was more apologetic than Republican Chairman Steele was to Rush Limbaugh. But before you feel sorry for him, watch a clip from his show where he recommends ways to profit off of the victimization of poor [...]

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The Wall Street Journal (not exactly a liberal newspaper) has a chart on their website detailing the job creation under each Republican and Democratic president of the past 50+ years. What’s not surprising? Democrats create jobs while Republicans do the opposite. According to the WSJ’s numbers (which come from the LaborDepartment), every Democratic president that [...]

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