Our conservative friends in OC and the national conserverati from Fox News and hard core right wingers in Congress have all railed against President Obama’s plan to close loopholes to make sure millionaires and billionaires are taxed at the same…
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The DPOC’s Deborah Pauly Moment
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
When Villa Park Council member Deborah Pauly used venomous words and threats against Muslims at a Yorba Linda rally in February, the Democratic Party of Orange County issued a statement condemning the comments and even suggested that the comments went beyond…
A Debt Ceiling Vote Paid for on a Backs of Working Families
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
I’m not happy with the compromise struck between the President, the Senate and the House on the drastic spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Make no mistake, the spending cuts will hurt the poorest and middle class the…
Updated with stats! For Republicans, “Compromise” Joins “Liberal” as a Dirty Word
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
In the late George Carlin’s classic bit on the Seven Words You can’t Say on Radio or TV, he laments that there really are no “bad words,” only “bad thoughts” associated with certain words. In 1994, House Speaker Newt Gingrich,…
Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang to run for Congress
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
Irvine mayor Sukhee Kang is throwing his hat into the ring and will challenge the John Campbell-Dana Rohrabacher GOP fistfight winner for a seat in Congress in 2012. If the proposed Huntington Beach-Irvine-Newport Beach-Laguna Beach district holds in the proposed redistricting, the top…
Rep. Sanchez statement on President’s plans in Afghanistan
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement regarding President Obama’s impending announcement that he will begin a significant draw down of American troops from Afghanistan in 2012. Congresswoman Sanchez has…
Obama Releases Long Form Birth Certificate
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
The statement from the President to this nonsense is pretty simple; we have serious problems to solve and don’t need the sideshow. What’s the over/under on this document being debunked by conspiracy theorists? The president: ” This issue has been…
