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Herman Cain loves “farm dust!”  Perhaps it reminds him of his childhood growing up in Memphis?  Who knows!  But he’s absolutely, 100% against regulating it.  He’d like you to know that.  Enough so that he made this ad.

I simply cannot do better than this.

The latest “special jobs session” where the Governor promised a “laser focus on jobs” which ended last night produced a total of 0.0 bills pertaining to jobs. Instead they took up such important bills as these: * Students Test Scores can now be used to fire and discipline teachers. *…

The Young Guns (Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor & Kevin McCarthy) have been telling anyone who will listen the regulations is choking the private sector like like Justice David Prosser chokes a woman*(he was mad so it was justified). Unfortunately for the ‘Young guns” Bruce bartlett, ex Ronald Reagan and George…

Sometimes when I see things on the news or in the paper I think back to the scene from Scrooged where Bill Murray is pleading with the set crew to “Stop the hammering!”  I’d like to ask our political leaders and our press corps to stop the hammering on things…

Yes, Paul Volcker, former chair of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan, the guy credited with ending stagflation, is calling for more regulation of the financial sector and the imposition of greater governmental control of markets.  Why?  Because self-regulation doesn’t (and has never) worked.

Holy mackerel! Bruce Bartlett, economic advisor to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush makes a surprisingly strong case for Keynesian fiscal stimulus.  He also says that, between Obama and Congress, it’s never going to happen.  He dismisses the idiocy of regulation as causing the lack of aggregate demand. “We should…

That’s what Rick Santorum, the dismal failure, says.  From Politico: In a statement to POLITICO, Santorum accused Romney of “trying to bully states” to rig the 2012 calendar for him. The Pennsylvanian called on his primary opponent to apologize. “It’s not surprising when a campaign pushes for a leg up…

That as we speak, throughout the right wing echo chamber, Hank Williams Jr. is being put on a pedestal! He will now have an open invite to join Hannity any time he wants. This is the guy who brought us such brilliant songs as this: Full disclosure though, I am…

Ronald Reagan in 1985 discussing the tax code: H/T Think Progress.