Alan Grayson brilliantly sums up the core of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Bill Maher’s Real Time last night:

So what are Republicans good at? It’s not national defense (9/11 happened on their watch and then they attacked the wrong country in response.) It’s obviously not the economy (Bush tax cuts created the deficit and we’re still feeling the effects of the Bush recession of 2008.) So what is it?

“We Don’t Know Yet” was Michael Steele’s response to Bill Maher’s question about what happens to seniors when they run out their $15,000 voucher on the new Republican “Medicare In Name Only” privatized voucher plan which would replace Medicare as we know it: This Republican plan to replace Medicare with an “ObamaCare” like privatized voucher [...]

At around 3 minutes into this video there’s a great rant where Bill Maher talks about how the Founding Fathers would have hated the Tea Party (and visa versa.) It’s right on target. Check it out for yourself:

With modern mainstream news being little more than an echo chamber for corporate sponsored propaganda (I would add “and political talking points” but that seems redundant) often the only place to find any truth is in comedy. What so many people take for granted as “conventional wisdom” (the type of garbage peddled in mainstream media) [...]

This image with the slogan “I Want My Country Forward” (which I think originated with Bill Maher) and a job creation chart (showing the growing job losses of George W. Bush and the growing job gains of Barack Obama) is worth sharing:

There is an breathtakingly disturbing group on C-Street known as “The Family” which includes active Governors, Congressmen, & Senators. I think you will be shocked to hear what they are up to and the things that they believe. Watch this interview with Jeff Sharlet (“The Family” expert who wrote a book on this subject) from [...]