Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Blog Posts Tagged 'gop' (129)

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The news that Apple paid zero taxes on tens of billions in income on its overseas operations, investments, and sales grabbed a momentary headline but stirred little more than a yawn among GOP leaders. There’s little surprise here for several well-known and deeply troubling reasons. The tax dodge scheme that Apple and other giant corporations and banking entities use to pay zero or minimum taxes on their sales and investments…

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The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don’t come close to passing the smell test for a public fogging of the president. There is absolutely…

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The GOP won’t give up on Benghazi for the simple reason that any and everything no matter how big, small, trivial, or downright nutty, that even remotely allows it to slur President Obama it will race to the stars with. Benghazi is not simply the latest in the hit plan against Obama but the longest standing and most relentless of the GOP’s ploys. The GOP sniffed administration blood on this from virtually the moment the first…

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In a week’s time the wide range of what was once considered routine GOP bigotry was on full display. Dave Agema, a former West Michigan state representative, and Republican National Committeeman called gays “filthy homosexuals. Next, Alaska Rep. Don Young blurted out the epitaph “wetbacks” in discussing the immigration issue. Then 23 members of the so-called White Student Union attended the Conservative…

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The GOP’s inviolate article of faith is that big government is inherently evil. The GOP has been stupendously successful through much of the last century in tagging any Democrat that champions increased regulatory powers, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, greater public spending on health, education and job programs, and bolstering entitlement programs as a reckless, tax and spend, enemy of private enterprise. Franklin…

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Politics made for strange bedfellows in those taking swipes at President Obama’s white guy appointees. Staunch GOP conservative Mike Huckabee took the first hard whack. He screamed that Obama was a hypocrite on diversity in that he used the issue of the war on women during the presidential campaign to pound the GOP and then turned around and stacked his cabinet with white males. The swing then went over the political spectrum…

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The issue is not the dubious foreign policy competence, independence, loose lipness or views of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. The issue is President Obama. The GOP has used the same shopworn template to hammer Obama so often it can be drawn up while asleep. It goes like this. Pick an Obama…