This week the GOP opposed increased spending for veterans, then proposed increased tax-cuts for the richest 1% of Americans. So much for supporting our troops.

Fight the Republican deficit by fighting the latest GOP tax break for America's wealthiest.

The federal budget, nondefense discretionary spending, the budget deficient, and the size of the federal government have all grown under Bush. Fiscal conservative? Fuhgettaboudit.

I think that we can all agree that Republicans hate taxes. No matter how deep into the red we go, we can always rest assured that they will raid Social Security or cut vital programs before increasing taxes. So when I read something like this [Warning: Drudge link], I'm tempted to believe it in spite of the source.

A friend of mine sent me the following to illustrate the way taxes work in America. What it succeeded in illustrating was that my friend is either blindly partisan or grossly ignorant.