On Friday, however, Senate Democrats stood up and voted for almost a trillion dollars more in tax hikes — and that’s on top of the tax hikes in the fiscal cliff deal. That’s about $375 billion more in tax increases than even Obama has been asking for lately. Republicans always said Senate Democrats needed to [...]
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Obama Versus the Republican Right in Congress on the Debt Ceiling
In the event that Republicans make good on their threat by failing to act, or by moving unilaterally to pass a debt limit extension only as part of unbalanced or unreasonable legislation, we believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a [...]
Top Story — Sen. Patty Murray: If No Revenue from Republicans, Let Tax Cuts Expire, Start Over in 2013
“If the Republicans can’t see their way to significant additional revenues targeted toward the people who are best off and targeted toward passive income and other things like that, then we’re better off going over the cliff and readdressing this with a better Congress in January,” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said. “And we would have [...]
Women Must Build on Banner Year
Women also helped elect the country’s first pro-choice governor, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, who was voted in with 60 percent of women supporting her. New Hampshire, in fact, is national headquarters for the Year of the Woman, with an all-female Congressional delegation, a female governor, and a woman-controlled state legislature. [Forbes] ANOTHER MOMENTOUS election [...]
Progressive Notes: Howie Klein’s Blue America, OWS from Home, Ellison on Voter I.D. Laws, and Other Doings
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Want a easy, non-violent way to Occupy Wall St. from home? You can. Join the movement. I’m going to start doing this: Howie Klein’s Blue America deserves great respect from progressives. This initiative helps recruit and fund progressives not so willing to tow the party line [...]
Old Fogie Justice and Breitbart Lies
“She loves her husband very much. She is committed to her husband and her marriage,” the close friend said. She’s adamant that her husband does not resign, and is optimistic that he can continue his career as an elected official. “I think people have weathered worse,” said the source. “They are still talking all the [...]
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