“It’s extremely worrisome,” said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, noting that Obama campaign supporters likely have no idea that personal data they voluntarily shared with the campaign has now been transferred and is being used for purposes beyond the election. – Obama campaign gives database of millions of supporters to [...]
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Top Story — Obama’s Inaugural Week, Reid and Schumer’s Weaknesses Follow
The joint budget resolution could also call for Medicare reforms and using the chained CPI formula to curb the cost of Social Security benefits. These entitlement reforms combined with tax reform would give Republicans political cover to accept tax increases — or at least more cover than if tax increases were merely packaged as an [...]
As Clinton Testifies on Benghazi, Popularity Reaches New High
Clinton, set to testify before Congress today about the Benghazi attack, appears undamaged by the security failure that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya: Sixty-seven percent of Americans see her favorably overall, numerically a new high in her long career in the public spotlight, and essentially unchanged in recent months. – [...]
News Desk — Roe v. Wade at 40: 7 in 10 Americans Want Abortion Legal
“I don’t need a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe,” said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, an antiabortion law firm that works with state groups on local legislation. “Clinic regulations do actually challenge Roe.” – Support Grows for Roe v. Wade Abortion Ruling [Wall Street Journal] ROE V. WADE and the 40th anniversary [...]
Top Story — As Obama Inauguration Nears, Republicans Realize They’re Powerless
THE LIGHT dawns on the Republican Party, just as President Obama’s inauguration is about to drive salt into their wounds. “We will raise the debt ceiling. We’re not going to default on our debt,” Cornyn told the Houston Chronicle editorial board. – Cornyn: Congress Will Not Allow Default It may be a dim bulb, but [...]
Feature — Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” Depicts the Fiercest Female Warrior in Modern Time
IT’S THE big story so many are missing in all the reviews tumbling out about Zero Dark Thirty. The hero in Zero Dark Thirty is “the girl.” Played by Jessica Chastain, who won the Golden Globe Sunday night for Best Actress in a Drama, what plays out on the screen is being overshadowed by high [...]
Senator Elizabeth Warren Eviscerates A.I.G.’s Hank Greenberg Over Possible Lawsuit Against Taxpayers Who Bailed them Out
AFTER WRECKING the U.S. economy, the numbskull who helped cause it, former AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, is trying to get A.I.G. to join his lawsuit against the New York Fed and the federal government, which was reported in a widely read story in the New York Times on Monday. The reaction in Washington and [...]
Right Smears John Brennan as “Arabist,” Ignores Purge of “Arabist” James Baker Wing
IF YOU want to start dissecting what’s happened to the sane branch of the Republican Party, it dates back to Georg H.W. Bush and James Baker, a time when realism in foreign policy took over for Ronald Reagan’s ramshackle militarism that led to Iran-Contra and near impeachment. The big story in the Republican Party over [...]
Top Story — History is Made as 20 Female Senators Sworn In
THE 113th Congress was sworn in with 20 female senators, Republicans and Democrats, which makes history. “I think that until we get to 50, we still have to fight because it’s still a problem,” Boxer said. “I think this class as you look around, Republicans and Democrats. … I think that because of this new [...]
Fiscal Scheme Deal Done: 77% of Households Will Pay More Taxes, Corporations Get Subsidies
We have been subjected to a White House negotiating process that violates every standard of rationality and transparency. The public never once saw an integrated budget proposal that showed the quantitative and qualitative implications of various policy options. The public has not been told that yesterday’s agreement threatens the financing of crucial programs for education, [...]
Goodbye to All That
SANDY TAUGHT us a lot this year, that is if you didn’t already get the problem. Lesson one: climate change is real. But what will be done on climate change is not encouraging, if past is indeed prologue. President Obama has another chance in his second term. Few allies exist in the right-wing Tea Party [...]
Top Story: Why President Obama and Democrats Shouldn’t Be Trusted Anymore than Republicans
Everyone is confused about the Fiscal Cliffhanger. Obama is struggling to make a deal to prolong most of the Bush-era tax cuts. The Republicans are holding back. Yet if a deal is reached, the federal government and the long-term purpose of the Democratic Party are both likely to be ruined for years to come. If [...]
Fools on the Hill
Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he stood in front of the House Republican Conference and recited the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I [...]
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 [...]
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