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Pistarkle

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March 13, 2013

Paul Ryan’s Path to Economic Destruction - What else is new?

Paul Ryan dusted off his 2011 and 2012 budget plan and renamed it The Path to Economic Destruction – OOPS! - The Path to Prosperity (wink-wink) - my bad!

Anyway, find out what Ryan’s plan takes away along with what WE can do about it at www.spindetective.com

March 11, 2013

GRAPHICS/VIDEO: What’s Really Behind the GOP Sequester

Seeing is believing! View a graph and video highlighting how the GOP’s twisted notions on the sequester serve themselves and their wealthy counterparts on the backs of the middle class and the poor at www.spindetective.com

WE deserve a vote!

March 8, 2013

Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ View on Our Right to Vote is Shocking!

Conservative Supreme Court justices “expressed skepticism Wednesday about whether the federal government should still be requiring preclearance of voting system change in certain places with a history of racial discrimination in elections. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia even went so far as to condemn Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as a “perpetuation of racial entitlement” (!?!?!) (huffingtonpost.com)


Help set the record straight at www.spindetective.com

March 6, 2013

House Republicans Run for the Hills After Bailing out on a Sequester Vote!

Before running for the hills on another vacation with no compromise to balance increased revenues with spending cuts in order to stop sequestration, House Speaker Boehner had the nerve to declare that “more revenue in order to reduce the federal deficit or to replace sequestration’s pending budget cuts is tantamount to stealing from the government”?

In addition to the fact that Boehner’s statement directly contradicts the facts stated in his own Congressional Budget Office report along with the Bi-Partisan Policy Center’s research proving that sequestration cuts “would not do much to address the government’s long term debt” - Boehner, his Tea Partied House Representatives and Tea Partied US Senators have been coasting on the government's dime for the past 4 years with little to no leadership, failures to vote, record-breaking vacations and record-breaking filibusters while putting in the “half the work”!

Find out more at www.spindetective.com

February 18, 2013

The GOP Debt Ceiling Solution: Let the Sequester Fester

The Tea Partied fiscal cliff battle resumes in March, 2013 when the reality of sequestration sinks in. How important do you think sequestration is to Tea Partied congressional representatives?

Details and petition links available at www.spindetective.com

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