President Obama told a group of California donors that the politics of the environment “are tough.” No doubt. But I’ll bet if your backyard was covered in crude oil, that would be even “tougher.” The photo is of such a backyard in Mayflower, Arkansas, the result of break in the Exxon Pegasus Pipeline. The NY [...]
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Obama’s Budget, Pelosi, and Cuts to Social Security
The arithmetic on the chained CPI is straightforward. It reduces benefits by an amount that increases 0.3 percentage points each year a person is retired. This means that after 10 years the reduction in the annual benefit would be 3.0 percent, after 20 years the reduction would be 6.0 percent, and after 30 years the [...]
Bob McDonnell’s War on Women Takes Virginia Back to When I Had to Cross State Lines to Get An Abortion
“… We say it is a moral tragedy but that it should not be the government’s role to deny its availability.” – Presiding Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori [Huffington Post] THERE ARE few subjects that are more hypocritical than so-called “conservatives” pretending it’s a conservative principle to inhibit a woman’s right to self-determination. It’s actually [...]
Obama Pledges in Private Meeting with Republicans to “Challenge His Own Party on Entitlement Reform”
OH, BUT that’s not all, folks. President Obama also tells Republicans he’s not trying to push a deficit deal that might help Democrats win back the House. From The Hill: President Obama pledged in a private meeting with Senate Republicans on Thursday to challenge his own party on entitlement reform. He also asked Republicans not [...]
Congressional Progressive Caucus Unveil “Back to Work” Budget *Updated*
WHILE EVERYONE is listening to the squealing talking heads on morning cable, none of whom know much about what a real budget looks like that doesn’t channel the disastrous notion of austerity, House progressives showed the Democratic party, the White House, and everyone else in Washington, how it’s done. You can read the Progressive Congressional [...]
News Desk: Bush-Cheney and the Report on “Globalizing Torture”
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign [...]
Boehner Opens House on Sunday, Hoyer Invokes Child Hostage Being Shot on Debt Limit
SHOCKING! SHOCKING, I say. Speaker Boehner is bringing back the House on Sunday, because Republicans are looking really small in this and at the bottom everyone knows middle class tax cuts will pass at some point and they might as well appear in the game. But, yes, I still believe a deal will get done [...]
Obama, Pelosi Deserve to Lose on End of Year Grand Bargain Scheme
Hopes of a grand-bargain — to shave trillions of dollars off the deficit by cutting entitlement programs and raising revenue — are shattered. – Fiscal cliff deal increasingly unlikely NOBODY SHOULD think this is the end of the maneuvering by President Obama and Democrats to “reform” entitlements. But at least for now, here’s to the [...]
Social Security Cuts Coming Unless People Raise the Roof
THE HEADLINE says it all and the emergency is very real. Activist progressives across the spectrum have been working to defeat President Obama’s plan to cut Social Security and hand Republicans something they couldn’t do on their own. Social Security cuts are assured, with Nancy Pelosi and establishment Democrats joining President Obama, unless you get [...]
President Obama’s House Poodle, Nancy Pelosi, Puts Her Party Over Middle Class and Seniors
“Yes, I do… I believe the President has shown great leadership in what he put forth…” Pelosi, adding, “Yes, the Democrats will stick with the president — and maybe not every single one of them.” [Huffington Post] WHAT WILL the rest of the congressional Democrats and progressives do? As for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, she can [...]
Martha Raddatz Latest to Ask If Democrats are Super Serious about Taxing Wealthy [Transcript]
IT’S A repeated question that continues to reveal the general media denseness on taxes when it comes to expanding the amount the wealthiest in this country pay. Even Martha Raddatz seems genuinely perplexed at why President Obama has emphasized the need to raise taxes, which is supported by congressional Democrats. From ABC’s “This Week,” with [...]
Luke Russert’s Belch
THE HACKERY of Luke Russert once again reveals the problem with not earning the job you have in Washington. No one can ask a pertinent question with any aplomb, something that’s required when facing a phalanx of feminine political powerhouses who rightly take an ageism question for what it is. Sexism. “Some of your colleagues [...]
What Will Nancy Do? *Updated*
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will remain atop the Democratic caucus for at least two more years, her office announced Wednesday. [Washington Post - **UPDATE**] TODAY, VERY soon, we will know. The real intrigue would be for the caucus chair job, where Connecticut Rep. John Larson (Conn.) is term limited. California Rep. Xavier Becerra, [...]
Report: House Letter Addressed to Clinton Reveals Targeted Attacks Before Benghazi Terrorist Attack
**UPDATED – CLINTON RESPONDS** The new information disclosed in the letter obtained by The Daily Beast strongly suggests the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the late Ambassador Chris Stevens were known by U.S. security personnel to be targets for terrorists. Indeed, the terrorists made their threats openly on Facebook. – Eli Lake THE REPORT from [...]
Top Story: What’s the Matter with Todd Akin?
But for all of that the overall numbers in the race have moved very little. When we polled in May McCaskill was getting only 8% of the Republican vote, and even with the controversy around Akin she’s only pushed up to 10% of it. GOP voters dislike McCaskill so much they’re not going to vote [...]
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