IRS “Scandal”

“Doesn’t anyone see the hypocrisy of the GOP for calling out the IRS for targeting groups (that lied about being charities) when that party has been targeting black and brown voters for years via every imaginable “voter-fraud” law?”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/6-key-takeaways-stupidity-and-reality-irs-scandal?akid=10455.285514.4pl9Vb&rd=1&src=newsletter842270&t=9

Obama Embraces Plutocrats Again With His Billionaire Commerce Secretary Choice | Alternet

Obama Embraces Plutocrats Again With His Billionaire Commerce Secretary Choice | Alternet.

REALLY Mr. POTUS? WTF? Her family’s best-known business, the Hyatt hotel empire, is known for bitter and ongoing  disputes with labor unions. Her resume includes running a bank that pioneered high-interest subprime loans and then failed miserably, leaving uninsured depositors with losses  averaging $6,000.

Bill Moyers & Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost of Government Secrecy | Alternet

Bill Moyers & Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost of Government Secrecy | Alternet.

“If there’s one thing we’re taught to think about our country, it’s that the government can’t punish people or put them in cages or threaten them with death without charging them with a crime, giving them a trial with a jury of their peers, and then convicting them beyond a reasonable doubt.”

What Privacy? CISPA Passes in Closed Door Vote – YouTube

What Privacy? CISPA Passes in Closed Door Vote – YouTube.

WTF? All I can say.

Obama Offers To Cut Social Security; GOPers Offer To Let Him | Crooks and Liars

Obama Offers To Cut Social Security; GOPers Offer To Let Him | Crooks and Liars.

“Robert Reich explains why offering to cut Social Security plays right into Republican hands, who will turn around and campaign against “the Democrats who want to cut your Social Security.” Of course, he doesn’t want to acknowledge the elephant in the room: that Obama wants those cuts so much, he may be willing to accept nothing in return to get it done.”

Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education | Alternet

Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education | Alternet.

“We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of ‘choice’ and a denial of reality – a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.”

Groundbreaking ‘War on Whistleblowers’ Investigation Exposes Obama Admin’s Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists | Alternet

Groundbreaking ‘War on Whistleblowers’ Investigation Exposes Obama Admin’s Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists | Alternet.

“Obama has been seduced by the nation’s spymasters, which is why his prosecutors have tried to intimidate and punish these messengers more than all recent presidencies combined.”

CBS News: No GOP Backers Of Gun Control Filibuster Would Agree To An Interview

CBS News: No GOP Backers Of Gun Control Filibuster Would Agree To An Interview.

WTF are they afraid of? Not only are they going against the will of the people, they are now hiding behind a filibuster rule no one voted in or has been made a law! (A filibuster now requires 61 votes to bring a proposal to cloture)

Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call

Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call.

“The president says this isn’t his “ideal plan,” but he doesn’t say what his ideal plan would look like – and he certainly isn’t fighting for a better one.  He also claims his budget offers “tough reforms,” which rings of self-satisfaction rather than sorrow.”

Obama’s Social Security Cuts: Wrong Policy, Dumb Politics

Obama’s Social Security Cuts: Wrong Policy, Dumb Politics.

His chained CPI plan is wrong because it hurts Americans who have worked hard their entire lives and who need the support that Social Security gives them. It is wrong because Social Security is financed separately and does not contribute to the deficit.