Click here to view this media John Kerry left little doubt where Democrats plan on laying the blame for Standard and Poor’s deciding to downgrade our credit rating — squarely on the laps of those “tea party” Republicans in the House who were actually saying default would be acceptable. From TPM — Kerry Slams ‘Tea Party Downgrade’ : Senator John Kerry (D-MA), appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, blamed Republicans and in particular Tea Party intransigence for the unprecedented S&P downgrade of U.S. credit from AAA to AA+. “I believe this is without question the Tea Party downgrade,” he said. “This is the Tea Party downgrade because a minority of people in the House of Representatives countered the will of even many of Republicans in the United States Senate who were prepared to do a bigger deal.” Kerry intimated that the “grand bargain” that President Obama initially negotiated with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), a package of larger spending cuts and revenue increases, was scuttled by a smaller group of Republicans who were not willing to negotiate at any cost. “There were some people in the Republican party – and Mitch McConnell even admitted this – who wanted to default, Kerry said. “He said there were people in his party who were willing to shoot the hostage. In the end they found that the hostage was worth ransoming.” Read on… It looks like the Democrats got on the same page with their talking points for the day since David Axelrod said the exact same thing on Face the Nation today .
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Campaigners vow ‘more pressure and more people’ after 300,000-strong demonstration across country Activists behind spiralling protests in Israel plan to build on one of the biggest marches ever seen in the country by piling on “more pressure, more people, more tents and more protests” culminating in a million-strong march in 50 cities next month. An estimated 300,000 people took to the streets on Saturday to press their demands for social justice and lower living costs in the largest demonstrations over social issues ever seen in the country. Despite scepticism that turnout could surpass previous events, almost twice as many people joined marches in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other towns and cities. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, was forced to respond to the spiralling protests with the establishment of a committee to “listen to the distress” and recommend action. The protests, which began with a handful of tents erected in Tel Aviv, have unleashed a national fury at the government’s failure to respond to the needs and complaints of middle-income Israelis. Tent cities have mushroomed in more than 40 locations across the country as well as daily demonstrations and roadblocks over the cost of housing, childcare, fuel, food and electricity. Despite Israel’s relatively healthy economic growth and low unemployment, wage disparities are big, wealth and corporate power are highly concentrated, food prices have increased almost 13% since 2005 and many people spend 50% of their incomes on rent or mortgages. Up to 250,000 people marched through Tel Aviv to Israel’s military headquarters on Saturday, causing major traffic diversions until the early hours. One sign, in Hebrew and Arabic, read “Egypt is here”. In Jerusalem, up to 30,000 people marched to Netanyahu’s residence, chanting the rallying cry of the past three weeks: “The people demand social justice.” Smaller protests were also held in Kiryat Shmona, Modi’in, Hod HaSharon, Ashkelon, Eilat and Dimona, according to media reports. Stav Shaffir, 26, one of the original tent protesters in Tel Aviv, told the Guardian that “more pressure, more people, more tents and more protests” would follow. “Right now we’re coming together to think about our next steps. There will be more protests – definitely more protests.” A loose alliance of activists behind the protests called for a million-strong march on 3 September. The committee set up by Netanyahu was ordered to report within a month. “It is impossible to ignore the voices coming from the public,” the prime minister said in a lengthy statement. Israel’s economy was strong, but “we know that we must make the internal corrections … social corrections, with sensitivity”. He added: “We will listen to everyone. We will speak with everyone.” However, Netanyahu has so far refused to meet a delegation from the tent protesters. “This is definitely not enough,” said Shaffir. “We have been on the street for almost a month, and there has been no contact at all from Netanyahu. The public thinks the government is out of touch with the people, and people are angry and want to see change.”Shimon Peres, Israel’s president, said the protests were a “testament to the nation’s maturity”. In contrast, the extreme right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said that cafes in Tel Aviv were “packed to capacity” adding that there was no reason “to be depressed”. The social protests have become the most pressing issue for the Israeli government, with the potential, according to some commentators, to topple Netanyahu’s coalition. Opinion polls have put public support for the protests at around 90%. Protest leaders have insisted that bringing the government down is not their aim. The organisers have striven to keep the movement as inclusive as possible, incorporating left and right, secular and religious, Jews and Arabs. They have avoided publicly making connections between the amount spent on settlements and the military for fear of being branded anti-occupation activists. “It is certainly one of the largest street protests we have experienced in Israel,” said Tamar Hermann, of the Israel Democracy Institute. “But what really makes it different is its heterogeneous nature. Normally protest is homogeneous. Diversity is as important as size.” She said Israel’s economic health was “one of the reasons people feel able to protest. When you are at rock bottom you invest everything in survival. People here are not devastated but discontented.” Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Israeli parliament, said the protests would define Israeli society as “a collective based either on social solidarity or national territorialism”. Indications that the former was outgunning the latter were “why all the settlers are so upset”, he added. Some observers believe Netanyahu will try to ride out the protests until September, when the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations is likely to dominate the political agenda. The Palestinians, they say, are a familiar foe that Netanyahu feels he can outmanoeuvre whereas the Israeli social justice protesters are an unknown force. Analogies drawn between the Arab spring and the Israeli summer were not completely misplaced, according to Hermann. “Israelis generally want to disassociate themselves from the Middle East, culturally, politically and economically. But obviously they have watched Tahrir Square as well as events in Spain and Athens. “Protest is a phenomenon which often spills over national borders. This fits into a new wave of street protests that we are now seeing all over the world, including the Middle East.” Palestinian demands As Israelis take to the streets to demand social justice, Palestinians are also gearing up to protest next month over their demands for recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. President Mahmoud Abbas has urged “popular resistance” as well as diplomatic moves. “In this coming period, we want mass action, organised and co-ordinated in every place,” he said last month. “This is a chance to raise our voices in front of the world and say we want our rights.” Marwan Barghouti, an iconic figure for Palestinians who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail, also called for mass action. “I call on our people in the homeland and in the diaspora to go out in a peaceful, million-man march during the week of voting in the United Nations in September,” he said. Palestinian leaders, backed by the Arab League, intend to ask the UN general assembly to back a Palestinian state when it meets in September. However, full recognition requires the backing of the UN security council, which the US has vowed to veto. The Israeli protests are being given scant attention in the Palestinian media. But, said Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian parliament, “we feel sympathetic because they are also demanding social rights. At the same time we hope that they will see that one of the reasons for this crisis is the Israeli occupation policy and military spending. “We hope that this social movement becomes a political movement which demands peace and end to occupation.” Harriet Sherwood Israel Middle East Protest Harriet Sherwood guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media The head of Standard & Poor’s sovereign ratings said Sunday that the agency may downgrade the U.S. again. “Given the economic and political situation in the U.S., which will we see, an upgrading back to AAA or further downgrades?” Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked David Beers. “We have a negative outlook on the rating and that means we think that the risk currently for the rating are to the downside,” Beers said. While explaining what the U.S. could do to get its AAA rating back, the S&P official mentioned entitlement cuts but ignored the agency’s call to raise revenues. “Does any compromise have to have entitlement reform and revenue increases to be credible?” Wallace wondered. “The key thing is, yes, entitlement reform is important because entitlement is the biggest — are the biggest component of spending and they are the part of spending where the cost pressures are greatest,” Beers replied. “The White House as you know is not happy with this decision and they have accused S&P of amateurism. They went through your numbers and found a $2 trillion overstatement of what the debt would be and when they pointed that out to you, you simply changed the rational and continued to downgrade the debt,” Wallace noted. “That is a complete misrepresentation of what happened,” Beers claimed. “Here we are talking about highly technical assumptions about projecting budget base lines far in the future. We made the motifications that we did after a conversation with the Treasury, it doesn’t change the fact that in our estimation, that even with the agreement of Congress and the administration this past week, that the underlying debt burden of the U.S. government is rising and will continue to rise, most likely, over the next decade.” “The haste with which S&P changed its principal rationale for action when presented with this error raise[s] fundamental questions about the credibility and integrity of S&P’s ratings action,” Treasury assistant secretary for economic policy John Bellows wrote last week . White House chief economic adviser Gene Sperling added that S&P’s actions “smacked of an institution starting with a conclusion and shaping any arguments to fit it.” “The magnitude of their error combined with their willingness to simply change on the spot their lead rationale in their press release once the error was pointed out was breathtaking,” he said. Beers told Wallace that he did not expect “that much impact” from the downgrade when the global markets open on Monday.
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Former deputy prime minister says it is ‘time for change’ as current rules ‘loaded’ against constituency interests The former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott has backed plans by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to weaken the power of trade unions in Labour party conference votes. In an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday , Prescott said it was “time for change” because the current rules – which give the unions 50% of the vote at conference – were seen as “loaded” against the interests of ordinary members in constituency parties. He cited his defeat in a contest to become the party’s treasurer last year as one reason why he was in favour of reform. Despite winning a clear majority in the constituency section of the contest, he was defeated by the union candidate, Diana Holland, after she won almost 100% of the votes cast by unions. Prescott is normally perceived as a champion of union interests, and his support will help Miliband in what is likely to be the toughest battle he has faced to reform his party since winning the leadership last year. Even Tony Blair balked at giving the unions less than half the vote at conference. Prescott said proposing changes to Labour’s constitution was “always controversial”, but insisted Milband was right to address the issue. “There is a feeling in the constituencies that perhaps the power of the trade unions has been loaded a bit against the constituencies,” he said. “When I stood for treasurer, I got 63% of the actual votes of the constituencies and hardly anything from the unions because three or four general secretaries decided I wasn’t going to be the one and therefore didn’t ballot their members. So it’s time for change.” Prescott suggested Miliband’s move was similar to John Smith’s decision to introduce one member, one vote for the selection of parliamentary candidates in 1993. “There may be resistance to [Miliband's plans] – there was against one member, one vote – and then the conference will make a decision,” said Prescott, who helped Smith win one member, one vote with a passionate speech that became famous both for its incoherence and its effectiveness. He also called Miliband “a man of reform”. Dismissing suggestions that the Labour leader was failing to make an impact, he added: “If you’re the leader of the Labour party and you want to make change, it’ll take you more than a week … he has only been in the job for 12 months, but he has made some headway.” Milband has been privately discussing plans with the unions. As the Guardian revealed last week , one plan is for Labour’s national policy forum to get a share of the vote at conference, thus diluting the unions’ influence. In a further move that could antagonise the unions, Miliband wants to change the rules for the election of Labour’s leader. One idea that has been floated is for registered supporters to get a vote. Miliband set out the case for reform in Refounding Labour, a consultation document prepared by Peter Hain and published in March. Although the document avoided specific recommendations, it made it clear that Miliband regarded the status quo as unacceptable. “Constitutionally, conference is the supreme decision-making body of the party,” the document said. “But it has been undermined by the smaller number of constituency parties sending delegates, the increasing concentration of union votes and a command and control culture which was sometimes seen at odds with dissent and diversity.” Miliband’s plans are likely to generate a fierce debate at this year’s party conference in Liverpool. But he may decide to postpone a decision on some of his proposals until the publication, in October, of a report from the committee on standards in public life on the funding of political parties. This is because its recommendations are likely to have repercussions for Labour’s links with the unions. John Prescott Trade unions Ed Miliband Labour Andrew Sparrow guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media After the decision by Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the United States credit rating to AA+, it appears all of the conservatives are now after Tim Geithner’s scalp for saying that the United States was not in danger of having this happen. So who did Mike Huckabee think President Obama should nominate to replace him if he goes on this Saturday’s Fox & Friends? Donald Trump. Not to defend Tim Geithner in any way, shape or form because I’m no fan of his to put it mildly, but Donald Trump Mike? This is the same guy that had to file for bankruptcy four times . And he’s also the same guy who said this — Trump to GOP: Force U.S. default to make sure Obama isn’t re-elected . And that doesn’t even take into account that he’s suggesting that President Obama would want to nominate someone who’s a birther for anything. Click here to view this media
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Eight police officers were injured during riots in Tottenham overnight. Violence erupted after protests at the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, who was killed on Thursday 10.46am: Awaiting a statement from Commander Adrian Hanstock, of Metropolitan police. Will bring it as it happens. 10.35am: Google map showing the scene of some of the fires and looting in the early hours of this morning. Click on the blaze icons for more information. We’d like to carry on adding to the map throughout the day to try and get a fuller picture of what happened and where. If you witnessed something that might be worth adding get in touch on Twitter @AdamGabbatt , or email adam.gabbatt@guardian.co.uk 10.12am: Tottenham MP David Lammy: @DavidLammy In n17 withs Nims Obunge, classford Stirling and Sharon grant. Devastating scenes. 9.58am: In the comments vic15 , who lives opposite Tottenham police station, has given a detailed account of their experience of the rioting. “This wasn’t just about a policing, this was about mindless violence and aggression by disaffected and alienated youth,” vic15 says. I live in Tottenham – actually I live directly opposite the main police station. This is basically what I saw. I didn’t know there was going to be any demonstration and heard a bit of noise but honestly, it’s quite a noisy area so didn’t think anything of it. Then at about 8/8.30pm things started to get quite frightening. We saw the police move into a line and police on the streets were throwing things at the police. It looked like stones and rocks although later became flaming wheelie bins and what looked to be shop fittings (my partner claims he saw a fridge being thrown or part of one). Then we saw the cars go up in flames, they were quite near us. That’s when I realised that this was getting really out of hand and the police moved around where we are and more and more kept arriving. We saw the bus and the buildings around us go up in flames like an inferno. That was probably one of the most frightening parts. People below the flat were shouting out to the police. I can’t remember their exact words but quite abusive and dismissive. We were worried that the fires on the high street were not being tackled and they were really gutwrenching. We didn’t see much of the looting first hand because we didn’t leave the property (of course) but at one point, early on, I called a friend of mine because I was scared and asked if we could come round. I wanted out of the area. She pointed out with much more clarity than me that the best thing we could do want not leave where we were. At least we were surrounded by police but it didn’t feel that safe when the fires were raging down the streets. We heard lots of dogs barking at one point and weren’t sure if they were police dogs or the dogs of the rioters because the accompanying shouting was too aggressive and angry. Then the fire engines got through and the horses and the armoured black riot vans. It seemed to quieten down nearer to us but it seemed to volatile and I didn’t sleep last night. Last night I was so angry with people who choose this way to destroy my community. I live in Tottenham and I have been sick of the sneery ways that people regard us. Some of the ‘twitter jokes’ last night were really really sad and almost broke my heart with the way that some people thought this was a big joke or that Tottenham isn’t ‘worth saving’. There are a lot of very good people here. The looting wasn’t a part of the demonstration. People came from all over London to ‘join in’ and the community I live in has been ruined. Now, beyond the anger, I’m sad, desperately sad. This wasn’t just about a policing, this was about mindless violence and aggression by disaffected and alienated youth and not just in Tottenham. Meanwhile the people I know, the shops I visit, my neighbours have had their lives ripped apart and the community which is wracked by poverty and joblessness is further labeled and further disadvantaged. I don’t want people to think that Tottenham is a hopeless place. It is my home and my community and I love living here but I really truly despise people who have destroyed it. 9.48am: Paramedics treated a total of 11 people, ten of whom were taken to hospital, according to the London ambulance service. A spokeswoman added that two of the eight injured police officers needed attention from ambulance crews, but it is not yet clear whether the other officers were dealt with by the ambulance service. 9.42am: Some official reaction from Downing Street: The rioting in Tottenham last night was utterly unacceptable. There is no justification for the aggression the police and the public faced, or for the damage to property. There is now a police investigation into the rioting and we should let that process happen. 9.31am: Paul Lewis was reporting from Tottenham overnight and reports that “sustained looting spread from Tottenham to other nearby areas of Haringey”. By midnight police managed to secure a 200-metre stretch of the Tottenham High Road, scene of some of the worst rioting on Saturday night. But as fire engines entered the street, and began putting out blazing cars and buildings, the rioters spread north and east through back-streets. To the north, at Tottenham Hale, Aldi supermarket was ransacked and set on fire. So too was a nearby carpet shop, causing a huge blaze. Looters turned up with cars and shopping trolleys to carry away stolen goods. Nearby, large groups of youths congregated in the surrounding streets with sticks, bottles and hammers. Some wore balaclava masks, preventing cars from accessing streets as buildings were broken into. Others used large rubbish bins to form burning barricades across the road. However some of most dramatic looting took place further west, in Wood Green, and continued into the early hours of the morning. 9.24am: This video by MriRudi on YouTube shows a building engulfed by flames. “Apparently this is a jeweller’s store,” someone is heard saying on the footage. An alarm can be heard sounding in the background. – 9.15am: Good morning, and welcome to the Guardian’s live reaction to the riots in Tottenham last night. Two police cars, a bus and several shops were attacked and set ablaze in north London as violence and looting erupted following a protest demanding “justice” over the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan. Eight police officers were injured during the violence, which continued into the early hours of Sunday morning. Duggan, 29, was killed on Thursday after police stopped the minicab he was travelling in. The IPCC are investigating the incident, which also saw a police officer shot – the bullet reportedly lodging in his radio and leaving him with minor injuries. Several colleagues were reporting from the scene of the violence in Tottenham, here’s the Guardian’s main news story : Officers on horseback and others in riot gear clashed with hundreds of rioters armed with makeshift missiles in the centre of Tottenham after Mark Duggan, 29, a father of four, was killed on Thursday. On Sunday morning police said there remained isolated incidents in the Tottenham area involving “a small number of people” and officers were still dealing with those situations. Eight officers were being treated in hospital, one with head injuries, following the violence overnight. The London Fire Brigade said all fires were now “under control” after trouble spread overnight from Tottenham High Road to Tottenham Hale Retail Park and a Lidl supermarket was set on fire. On Saturday night, rioters broke through police ranks and attempted to storm Tottenham’s police station, pelting officers with bricks, bottles and eggs. As a police helicopter flew over Tottenham High Road, youths in masks and hoods added combustible material to two burned out police cars, included a bundle of documents and an awning ripped down from one of the shops. Some attempted to persuade the rioters to disperse, one young man shouting: “Go home now people.” But others filled bottles with petrol to throw at the police lines. Many lined up with makeshift weapons including metal bars and baseball bats to confront the line of police, but others seemed more interested in looting. At one stage a safe was dragged out of a bookmakers, while others were seen with a television set and an electric guitar. Several arrived with shopping trollies to take away what they had stolen. “It wasn’t like this before,” said one woman standing close to one of the two burned-out police cars. “It started out as a peaceful demonstration. The police shot a guy here last week and they lied about what happened. They said he pulled a gun but he wouldn’t have done that with armed police. They shot him so badly that his mother could not recognise him.” A Metropolitan police spokesman said the trouble began when missiles were thrown at parked patrol cars at 8.30pm. He said one was pushed, blazing, into the middle of Tottenham High Road. Neither of the two officers who had been driving the cars was injured. As violence spread, a double-decker bus was set upon. Witnesses said the vehicle exploded in flames after attackers threw homemade bombs through its windows. Nearby shops were also set ablaze. Were you in Tottenham last night? Get in touch on Twitter @AdamGabbatt or share your stories below. London Metropolitan police Protest Adam Gabbatt guardian.co.uk
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New research challenges government claims over making work pay for families in Britain’s ‘squeezed middle’ Women are being priced out of the job market because of deep government cuts in state funding for childcare, according to research published on Sunday. The study by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank challenges the claims made by ministers that their flagship welfare reforms will “make work pay” and encourage people off benefits and into work. Instead, the IPPR analysis highlights figures suggesting that the increased cost of childcare is persuading many mothers to stay at home to look after their children themselves. The research focuses on low- to middle-income families in the “squeezed middle”, who are already suffering from declining real wages as pay is either frozen or increased at a lower rate than inflation. Based on official employment data, the IPPR found that while unemployment had fallen by 20,000 over the past year to 2.45 million, the number of unemployed women had risen by 42,000. The study says that the spike in the number of jobless women can be explained partly by the fact that public-sector job losses have disproportionately affected women. Over the past year, private-sector employment has increased by 520,000 but in the public sector it is down by 143,000. The official classification of “public administration, health and education” is the only sector where more women than men are employed. Dalia Ben-Galim, IPPR’s associate director, said: “During the recession, unemployment among men increased much more than among women. But our analysis of the latest figures shows that this experience is now being reversed, in large part because of the government’s public spending cuts.” Another key factor driving the rise in female joblessness, IPPR said, was the 10% cut to the amount of childcare costs that low- to middle-income families can claim through the tax credit system. Until April, working tax credit covered 80% of the costs of childcare up to £175 a week for one child and £300 a week for two or more. But in April, this was reduced to 70% as ministers tried to slash the welfare bill. “Cuts to childcare tax credits mean that for some women, work no longer pays and they are better off staying at home,” Ben-Galim added. “The squeeze … means that it may be more economical for parents – and in particular mothers who are often paid less – to leave the labour market. This not only has an impact on women’s long-term career prospects, but can also have an impact on children.” Earlier this year another thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, calculated that almost 500,000 low- to middle-income families would lose an average of £436 a year in support for childcare costs. In London, where costs are highest, it estimated 50,000 families would lose an average of £600. In some cases, the loss could be as much as £1,300 a year. A DWP spokesman disputed the IPPR’s analysis and said that the government’s changes to welfare were geared to offering the best possible help to people wanting to get into work. “Women who are looking for a job should visit their local jobcentre where they will be given advice and be able to take advantage of the 10,000 jobs we take every working day. In June, we launched the Work Programme which offers long-term unemployed people tailored support to get back into work. The programme is different to previous schemes as it assesses people to discover what barriers are preventing them from getting a job and will then work with them to overcome these problems.” The OECD says the UK has some of the most expensive childcare in the world. The average cost of childcare is £97 a week (for 25 hours) with costs in the southeast rising to an average of £115. IPPR wants fundamental reform of the welfare state to guarantee everyone out of work for more than a year gets a job on the minimum wage. People refusing to take work after a year of unemployment would lose their benefits. It also wants a reformed welfare state to provide universal childcare to parents to encourage full employment. Childcare Tax credits Family finances Welfare State benefits Toby Helm guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media You’ve just got to love what passes for “straight news” over at the Fox/Republican cable channel. During one of their “breaking news” segments after the news that Standard and Poor’s decided to downgrade the AAA credit rating of the Unites States, who did they bring in to do some “objective” analysis? The American Spectator and Wall Street Journal ‘s resident hack, John Fund . And what was Fund’s reaction to the downgrade? More austerity measures naturally. And what did Fund completely ignore? This tidbit from the report issued by Standard and Poor’s on their decision for making the downgrade. (h/t Jamie) Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act. Fund naturally thinks we should be taking it out on the hides of everyday working Americans to do something about our budget deficit. Ignoring completely that the Republicans have been the ones being absolutely rigid in their position that there will be no tax increases since they’re all afraid their Uncle Grover will primary them. I think we just got a preview here of what we’re going to see from Fox 24/7 over the next week as they try to explain what happened with this downgrade. No questioning of whether we should even trust the ratings agency that got it all so wrong before the meltdown of the financial industries and more demands that we go after Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid or these vultures will never be satisfied. UPDATE: And right on cue, one of our newly elected TeaBircher Republicans in the Senate, Mike Lee was chiming some of the same talking points in another “breaking news” segment following the one with Fund. Not only was he calling for austerity measures, but he was also still touting their ridiculous balanced budget amendment as well. And of course the problem in Lee’s mind with protecting his rich campaign donors is that Washington is spending too much (code for they’re doing things to help out working people and not corporate welfare or funding our military industrial complex) and they’re borrowing too much. And of course with him also ignoring that the wealthiest 1% are being taxed at the lowest rates in ages and that we have a revenue problem they refuse to fix. I’m just wondering how much worse things have to get in the United States before the majority of the public starts to get wise to these liars because they actually start paying attention to what’s going on and how ridiculous these talking points from the GOP are that do not match up to reality in any way, shape or form. Click here to view this media
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