...against the meme

The overwhelming majority of our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press recites Republican talking points.

When will this nation learn that the Republicans are not interested in governing, only power and their handlers, like Sheldon Adelman?

Powered not by coal, but excrement.

Running strictly on vapor and no substance.

playing the clip of Boner right after he agreed with Obama, saying that he's happy, that "we've got 98% of what we wanted" ... before he went back to his true masters and they said "WE WANT 200% OF WHAT WE ASKED FOR!"

We've moved so far to the right after decades of media propaganda... and barely noticed it happening.

Goldwater used to be an extreme rightwinger.
Now Obama IS about where Goldwater WAS.

by any logical standard.

Obama is further to the right than Goldwater.

And it is that BASE that drives Republican primaries and therefore the party.

And that BASE is, of course, driven by the likes of Koch & Adelson and the Rightwing noise machine.

Need to be careful slingin' truth around here about Obama though.

that both Parties are to blame. So they keep claiming Obama is equally to blame along with the GOP House. They have to do that, because they are just Republicans who are not comfortable being out of the GOP closet.

Cut the defense dept by 50%
Raise taxes on the wealthy until they pay down the debt they ran up with prior tax cuts
Simplify tax code by treating all income the same, regardless of source
Raise the cap to fix social security issue
Implement single payer and pharma reform to reduce medical costs

No none nada nyet rien cuts to earned benefits

The supply side economic fraud, the deregulation fraud and the Iraq fraud are responsible for our debt. All put forward by the rebukes. Make the1% that benefited from these frauds pay down the debt. Stick em until squeal and then push harder.

The rest of us had it being scammed and then being asked to pay for their disasters

Journalists like Ezra Klein are a rare breed. They actually look into the data and evaluate what is really being proposed. Most inside the Beltway pundits just regurgitate quotes from their sources and write that "both sides are to blame".

It's laziness, pure and simple.

No matter what PBO does, MSM punditry will pose it as a false equivalency or as Krugman suggest PBO just isn't doing enough. The meme that PBO needs to interact with more with Boehner + McConnell is a good example. Both are tied at the hip with reactionary teabillies + have zero interest in compromise, no matter what position PBO takes. Hell, they're even scared to be caught in public with the President of the United States. Damn!

Since the Republican Party represents the interests of the plutocracy, the corporate news media must always feign amnesia, twist itself into logical contortions and lie by omission to conform with Republican propaganda.

Their paychecks depend on it. Does anyone really expect "honesty" or "courage" or "patriotism" from those self-interested media hacks?

considerably right-of-center Bowles and Simpson who propose a considerably right-of-center tax scheme and the President's proposals have to the right of Bowles-Simpson. Add the President's continuance of junior's wars and a goodly bit of junior's other policies and personnel, yet Republicans hate the President with a vitriol far out of reason considering his reach-across-the-aisle right-of-center governance. So what's the big problem Republicans?