Tax Brackets; Tax Rates

It helps if you know the difference: How Tax Brackets Work -- $250,001 Will Pay Five Cents More Tax

For The Birds

O’Donnell wins in Delaware. Local GOP honked off. Washington Post (09.15.10):

"Here’s what Delaware Republican Party chairman Tom Ross told me last night:

'I could buy a parrot and train it to say, "tax cuts," but at the end of the day, it’s still a parrot, not a conservative.'"

The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity

UPDATE: Zowie. This could turn out to be one ugly election for Christine: "(O)ur polling suggests with O'Donnell's victory that Coons will win more Republicans than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the country."

And friends, that's gotta hurt.

Resentment And Bitterness

The Tea Party. Not just about politics anymore. As if it ever was. WISER, via Think Progress:

"(E)ven as we account for conservatism and partisanship, support for the Tea Party remains a valid predictor of racial resentment."

Multi-state survey of Race & Politics

"(S)upport for the Tea Party makes one 25 percent more likely to be racially resentful than those who don't support the Tea Party."

Just ask Rush.

Oh My!

Sharon outdoes even herself. How anyone could think this woman is mad as a hatter is beyond us. Las Vegas Sun (08.04.10), via TPM

"'And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.'"

Angle: "What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment," entitlements "make government our God."

The American Taliban, in action.

UPDATE: Ride your bike for the OneWorldGovernment. "(Tea Party favorite) Maes acknowledged that some might find his theories 'kooky,' but he said there are valid reasons to be worried."

Reasons such as clinical paranoia, perhaps?

Shit Will Happen

Then you'll be sorry.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Sharon would prefer the media outlets to be a bit more, uhhh, obsequious. National Review (08.03.10), via Huffington:

"'We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.'"

Did She Just Say That Out Loud?

Harry Reid is one lucky bastard.

Dancing With The Bank That Bought You

Holy fuck, is all we gotta say. Bob Inglis, current House member who lost the recent primary in SC4 because he wasn't wingnutty enough. Mother Jones, via Oliver Willis:

"I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there's a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life's earnings, and you are collateral."

Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

Welcome to the Tea Party Twilight Zone. Don't forget the fluoridation.

With Friends Like These

Poor Sarah

Just can't catch a break.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

IndyStar (07.23.10), via Oliver Willis:

"Now, if you attend some tea party meetings in Indiana, a different kind of challenge is emerging. On the information tables, along with candidate brochures and handouts from right-wing blogs, is a stack of DVDs, one of them titled 'Rothschild's Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder America.'"

Strains of anti-Semitism create dangerous brew

"As described in breathless narration over ominous, pounding, suspenseful music, the cabal is made up of Jewish financiers and billionaires, run today by Lord Jacob Rothschild, the 4th Baron. Along with Jewish-run secret societies and globalist organizations, their control of Barack Obama has turned him into a water boy to their causes."

Jesus

CJ tees off on Breitbart.

Move Along, Please

Ain't no racism here.

The sign at 1:35 is particularly endearing.

As is the one at 2:15.

"Old times dar am not forgotten"

Ain't No Racists Here

Move along now, please. Miami Herald (07.16.10), via Political Correction:

"Billy Roper is a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas and an unapologetic white nationalist.

'I don't want non-whites in my country in any form or fashion or any status,' he says.

Tea party rejects NAACP's racism claims, but concerns exist

"Roper also is a tea party member who says he has been gathering support for his cause by attending tea party rallies."

NO!! It's not the Tea Party! It's the New Black Panthers!! It's the New Black Panthers!!

UPDATE: It's still the New Black Panthers!!

And we all know how "they" stick together, right?

Facts?

Yeah, we heard of 'em. Boston Globe (07.11.10), via Hullabaloo:

"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds."

How facts backfire

"In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs."

Really?

Here It Comes

What do you mean "we", pale face?

Attention Teabaggers!!

Click through, please: All That Low Income Housing

Awww, what the hell. To save you the trouble, click here.

So Shut The Fuck Up, You Morons

Damn Tea Partiers. And they wonder why they don't get any respect? They're idiots, that's why. USAToday (05.11.10), via ThinkProgress:

"Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found."

Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950

"Some political conservatives such as 'Tea Party' activists have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels."

For All Your Idiot Friends

For the morons who don't have a clue about the new health care law, this might help.

Assuming they know how to read, that is.

Do What I Say

Not what I do. Another god-damn TeaParty hypocrite. Washington Post (04.01.10), via Hullabaloo:

"But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect 'tea party' candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.

The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year."

For tea party, midterms present a choice between ideals, pragmatism

From Digby: "Sometimes you just have to stand back in awe of conservatives. This guy doesn't think anyone should have to pay taxes but he collects nearly a quarter of a million bucks from the treasury every year."

Sucking The Government Teat, Part Two

NYTimes (03.27.10), via Kos:

"When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist."

"With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

"Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s 'Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s 'The Law,' which denounces public benefits as 'false philanthropy.'"