David Perdue is downplaying his outsourcing career

"Just a couple days ago, David Perdue didn't feel like he needed to defend his career in outsourcing—heck, he was "proud of it," though he was also trying to redefine what outsourcing means. It's starting to seem like the Georgia Republican Senate candidate is rethinking that pride, though, at least for campaign purposes...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/08/1335165/-David-Perdue-attempts-damage-control-over-his-outsourcing-career

David Perdue said it on camera

"Georgia Republican David Perdue didn't just respond to questions about his long career outsourcing jobs by saying "defend it? I'm proud of it!" He said it on camera. In a tone that said "why would you ask me this crazy question?" It really has to be seen to be believed that any Senate candidate, let alone one with a small lead in a close race in the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country, would basically bear hug the idea of slashing American manufacturing jobs and replacing them with poverty-wage jobs in Asia...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1334849/-David-Perdue-didn-t-just-say-he-was-proud-of-outsourcing-jobs-He-said-it-on-camera

David Perdue On Outsourcing Jobs

"...it sure sounds like he thinks sending manufacturing jobs to wherever in the world wages are lowest is something a candidate for United States Senate should actively embrace. It's something any Georgia voter who makes less than $100,000 a year should think hard about before voting."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/06/1334711/--Defend-it-I-m-proud-of-it-GOP-Senate-candidate-on-having-outsourced-jobs

Perdue's outsourcing

"...if any Georgia voters were duped into thinking Perdue's business experience might help create jobs in Georgia, they should check out what he had to say about his career in outsourcing in a 2005 legal deposition:

Perdue was asked about his “experience with outsourcing,” and his response was blunt. “Yeah, I spent most of my career doing that,” Perdue said, according to the 186-page transcript of his sworn testimony. [...]"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/03/1334092/-David-Perdue-I-spent-most-of-my-career-outsourcing-to-Asia?detail=hide 

"It's a conspiracy!!"

"Georgia currently has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. According to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, that seems mighty suspicious...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/24/1332173/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Increased-unemployment-in-Republican-led-states-A-conspiracy-no-doubt

State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People

"...Concerned that this will lead to higher African-American voter turnout and hurt his party’s dominance, one state lawmaker is speaking out and vowing to stop this easy voting for minority voters...."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/09/3565073/georgia-senator-early-voting-suppression/

Voter Suppression via the Secretary of State

"A day after the Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans vowed to block early voting dates and locations that he felt would attract African American voters, a progressive group released audio on Wednesday of Georgia’s Secretary of State warning fellow Republicans that Democrats might win because they are registering minority voters...."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/11/3566493/georgia-secretary-of-state-laments-minority-voters/

How a Plan To Keep a GOP Rally Off the Internet Went Awry

"...Most journalists...are capitalists. We do what we do for money – and God bless the publishers who pay us. But there are those who write and operate their cameras for free, simply because they are driven....<Nydia Tisdale, citizen journalist> is one of those...."

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/08/27/how-a-plan-to-keep-a-gop-rally-off-the-internet-went-awry/

The Republican Healthcare Plan

"...The United States is a wealthy nation. We boast that we’re the world’s only superpower.  We call ourselves exceptional.  And yet a significant fraction of our population doesn’t have access to basic healthcare. 

We Americans actually argue over whether or not access to healthcare is a basic human right.  Guns, in America owning a gun is a right, but not the ability to see a doctor...healthcare? Soviets got healthcare too, massively shitty healthcare to be sure, but even shitty Soviet healthcare is better than the republican plan at this point.  And, really, you’re telling me that America, America, can’t do better than the Soviet Union? Are you kidding me?..."

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/08/ass-backward-into-unknown.html

The irrationality of Medicaid refusal

"Leading health economist Uwe Reinhardt is baffled as to why Republican governors would turn down potential billions by refusing Medicaid expansion. He uses a helpful analogy to show just how irrational an economic decision refusal is...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/12/1321004/-The-irrationality-of-Medicaid-refusal?detail=hide

Georgia Republican Governor’s Corruption Costs Taxpayers Millions

"Allegations of corruption and ethics violations against Georgia’s GOP Governor, Nathan Deal, began to plague him even before he was elected as Georgia’s governor in 2010. An attempted cover-up of an investigation into Deal’s misuse of funds,  ethics violations, and violations of campaign finance laws, led to a series of whistle blower lawsuits, and a scandal that has implicated not only the Governor and some of his closest staffers, but the state’s entire ethics committee, as well. Recent developments also call into question whether the state’s republican Attorney General, Sam Olens, is willing or able to carry out the duties of his office in a non-partisan manner...."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/03/attempted-cover-up-of-georgia-republican-governors-corruption-costs-taxpayers-millions/

Who do Republicans really work for?

"Republican senators blocked an election-year bill Wednesday to limit tax breaks for U.S. companies that move operations overseas...."

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-case-you-doubted-who-republicans.html

GA Congressional District 10's Embarrassment

"Tuesday brought the news that yes indeed, Georgia Republican House candidate, tea partier and general crazy person Jody Hice did indeed win his primary and will be headed to the general election and, most probably, into Congress. Ladies and gentlememz, presenting the next Michele Bachmann...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/23/1316080/-Meet-Republican-Jody-Hice-the-likely-new-craziest-member-of-Congress

America's prisons are broken, and puppets are necessary to explain it

America's prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.
America's prisons are broken

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A Solution In the Middle East

"...there’s enough death on both sides to fill a battlefield with dead children and dead husbands and dead wives and dead mothers and dead fathers and dead bystanders of every stripe...."

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/07/an-eye-for-eye-in-country-of-blind.html

Supply-Side Zombies

"...tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people...."

Supply-Side Zombies

Republicans: Never Wrong About Anything

"They say that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything. But I’m beginning to doubt I’ll live long enough to hear a Republican say they’ve ever been wrong about anything. Remember that disastrous war in Iraq, the one that put so many young men and women in VA hospitals, the one that was never funded, that ballooned our national debt, all while doing nothing at all good for our nation?
 
That was the war where we were going to be “greeted as liberators,” the one the neo-cons promised “would be a cakewalk.” That was the war we were lied into fighting..."


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-oneill/56522/republicans-never-wrong-about-anything