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GOP Rep. says working mothers should have stayed at home
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) opined at a campaign stop recently about how things were better in the olden days when women stayed at home taking care of the kids instead of going to work. According to the Washington Post, Bartlett broached that topic while talking with the owner of a…
Republican Congressman apologizes for linking student loans to the Holocaust
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) said this week that he’s very sorry for telling his constituents that the federal student loan program is a step down a “slippery slope” to Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. The 86-year-old congressman used the analogy on Wednesday night, speaking to a constituent who asked if he believes…
Aaand, Point Proven
Bruce Bartlett writes today on the fact that Tea Partiers know as much about the taxes they’re protesting as Georgetown knows about beating the ninth-best team from the Mid-America Conference. Anyway, Dissenting Justice wrote about Bartlett’s piece, pointing out Tea Partiers have no idea what’s happened with federal taxes (only…
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