Fuck its silent in here.......

[Quality Start Machine]

Fork was right?!?!

I guess someone's in big trouble at The Journal, among other places.

The Church put the video up on YouTube, which is absolutely the public record. They done fucked up.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Fork was right?!?!

I guess someone's in big trouble at The Journal, among other places.

The Church put the video up on YouTube, which is absolutely the public record. They done fucked up.

You really don't know what "the public record" means, do you?

[Gilgamesh]

Fork was right?!?!

I guess someone's in big trouble at The Journal, among other places.

The Church put the video up on YouTube, which is absolutely the public record. They done fucked up.

You really don't know what "the public record" means, do you?

#ShawFacts

[Wheezer]

So, this Ryan fellow is actually an alien insectoid assistant human resources manager, eh? Chilling.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

So, this Ryan fellow is actually an alien insectoid lizard assistant human resources manager, eh? Chilling.

Fact check'd.

[Wheezer]

So, this Ryan fellow is actually an alien insectoid lizard assistant human resources manager, eh? Chilling.

Fact check'd.

This is going to be one asshurt installment of Milt.

[Edit.--And why would a reptilian look like Curious George? I mean, not... Phil Ponce too?]

[Edit 2.--Yup, he's already blamed the chairs.]

[Edit 3.--Lipson seems to be in an even sorrier state. Remind me to tell y'all some time about the time he approached my imaginary ex on the street while walking his dog Lola.]

[Edit 4.--Charles is circling the drain. He just tried to prop up the "religious liberty," hey-the-Pope-says-what-private-insuraers-can-do game. No. 3 above rhymes with "D'oh, Pen marriage."]

[Edit 5.--Score. Milt has just expressed consternation about "the dilemma of what to do with" a woman who has been "impregnated" by rape or incest.]

[J. Walter Weatherman]

[Wheezer]

Veronica Hamel never did do a damn thing for me.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://uppityminx.tumblr.com/post/33402887398





"Come back to me. Don't disappear on me. I need you, Boo."

[Gilgamesh]

[morpheus]

Oddly hypnotic.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Harold Ford, Jr. debates Al Sharpton?

[Yeti]

Ryan-face, Biden-hair kills me

[R-V]

Some follow up on Paul Ryan's "6 studies." Shit don't add up.

Romney's tax plan is a three-legged stool that doesn't stand. Here's how it works -- or doesn't. Romney wants to 1) cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent, 2) cut tax expenditures to pay for these tax cuts, and 3) maintain progressivity. The problem, as the Tax Policy Center pointed out, is there aren't enough tax expenditures for the rich to pay for all the tax cuts for the rich. Romney's plan only works if he cuts out the tax cuts for the rich, raises taxes on the middle class, or explodes the deficit. In other words, Romney can pick two, and only two, of his tax goals -- what Matt Yglesias of Slate calls the "Romney Trilemma".

That sound you hear is the three-legged stool falling down.

All this hasn't stopped a fight against the tyranny of arithmetic. The defenses of the Romney tax  plan generally fall into three broad categories. The first assumes the plan will set off magic growth of the monster variety; the second assumes Romney defines "middle-class" differently than he does; and the third assumes Romney would eliminate tax expenditures he has indicated he would not eliminate.

There are only meaningful "alternatives" to discuss with Congress if Romney can pick and choose from a pool of tax preferences for the wealthy that far exceeds the $250 billion annual cost of his rate cuts for them. If the pool of available base broadeners is just large enough to finance his tax cuts, then Romney actually is dictating a plan to Congress: if they don't eliminate exactly the set of preferences he proposes, his plan will either have to raise taxes on the middle class or grow the deficit.

TPC finds that Romney's rate cuts, plus elimination of the estate tax and Alternative Minimum Tax, would cost the Treasury about $250 billion in revenue from high earners. If he could somehow find, say, $300 billion in base broadeners from the wealthy, $15 billion of which would have to go to a phaseout, that wouldn't leave a lot of "alternatives" on the table. Yet there aren't enough base broadeners for Romney to reach the $300 billion level, let alone exceed it.