Republicans are not even bothering to pretend that they don't work for the richest 1% anymore.

Courtesy of the Washington Post: 

On Tuesday afternoon, the House Rules Committee took up H.R. 1105, the “Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015,” with plans to bring it to a vote on the chamber floor Wednesday — Tax Day. It is an extraordinarily candid expression of the majority’s priorities: A tax cut costing the treasury $269 billion over a decade that would exclusively benefit individuals with wealth of more than $5.4 million and couples with wealth of more than $10.9 million. 

That’s a tax break for only the 5,500 wealthiest households in the country each year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. Of those, the 318 wealthiest estates each year — those worth $50 million or more — would see an average windfall of $20 million each, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 

And this at a time when the gap between rich and poor is already worse than it has been since the Great Depression? Never in the history of plutocracy has so much been given away to so few who need it so little.

You know according to Aesop at least the wolf would wear sheep's clothing to infiltrate the flock, but these assholes are swinging their wolfish bits without a care in the world as to who notices.

Can you believe that people still vote for these jerkwads?

Bill Maher's final New Rule from last night.

"Stock trader Steve Schwarzman, net worth 8 billion, once said that Obama raising his taxes 3% felt like when Hitler invaded Poland. Sounds like something Sarah Palin would tweet after huffing paint thinner."

Best line of the night.

Hah! We're the GOP ticket and YOU'RE stuck with us! Update!

Don't be fooled by the televised unity seemingly on display during the Republican convention. MOST of the Republican party simply cannot stand Mitt Romney.

He is disliked by the Evangelicals.

He is disliked by the Republican establishment.

His fellow opponents in the Republican primaries did not simply attack him in order to win the nomination, they attacked him because they actually COULDN'T stand him!

Hell even his fellow Mormons Jon Huntsman and Harry Reid have attacked him and called him a liar numerous times.

And after what happened with the Ron Paul delegates, you KNOW he is despised by the Teabaggers.

Sure Paul Ryan is more popular, but not popular enough to alter people's inherent dislike for this arrogant son of privilege.

In fact he is SO disliked that the minuscule bump he received after the convention has already evaporated. Let's face it, the only people voting for Mitt Romney are those who despise President Obama even more.

The only question is will that be enough?

In my opinion, not even close.

Update: I think this comic just about sums up why the Romney/Ryan convention bump was so short lived.

No wonder Mitt Romney likes the Ryan Budget!

Courtesy of the Atlantic:

Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years -- or any of the years after that. Now, do I know that that's true. Yes, I'm certain. 

Well, maybe not quite nothing. In 2010 -- the only year we have seen a full return from him -- Romney would have paid an effective tax rate of around 0.82 percent under the Ryan plan, rather than the 13.9 percent he actually did. How would someone with more than $21 million in taxable income pay so little? Well, the vast majority of Romney's income came from capital gains, interest, and dividends. And Ryan wants to eliminate all taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends. 

Isn't THAT convenient? Essentially this is just another example of Romney saying, "I got mine, so fuck the rest of you!"

Well it has been weeks, well past time for Sarah Palin to embarraass herself and the people who pay her speakers fee yet again. Update!

She has never looked more lifelike!

This comes to us courtesy of Business Insider:

It's the last day of SALT, and this is probably by far the most ridiculous thing we've heard come out of the hedge fund conference, thanks to Lawrence Delevingne at AR.

You know I am still laboring under the assumption that they paid Palin to speak at this event purely in the interest of comic relief.

I mean these are intelligent people, hard to imagine many of them keeping a straight face while listening to the Lunatic from Lake Lucille.

There are more tweets at the link above.

Update: Apparently we have been led astray that Palin would be giving a speech at the SALT conference. According to the graphic displayed behind her she is only providing "REMARKS."

Like I said, comedy relief.