Democratic oppo 2012 is up and running. The LA Times reported in April how Democrats were going to arm themselves after the Citizens United case and it’s in full swing, labeling Brock’s group a “research hub.” Mike Allen highlights the story today in his Playbook. David Brock’s new group, apart from Media Matters, already targeted [...]
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Judge Strikes Down Walker’s Anti-Union Law (while Vermont goes single-payer)
Along with the news that Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont has signed into law a single-payer health system in Vermont, comes this news from Huffington Post: Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Thursday that Republican legislators violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law during the run up to passage. She says that renders the law void. [...]
Ed Schultz Apologizes
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Schultz is on voluntary unpaid absence for the coming week, with MSNBC issuing a statement late yesterday about Ed Schultz’s embarrassing public belch. The comments over at Ed’s MSNBC page are wholly supportive of the blue collar talk radio hero, whose passions drive [...]
Obama’s Economic Message Malpractice
Republican primary voters at this early stage of the game now give billionaire developer Donald Trump the edge over presumptive favorites Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in the race to be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012. – Another Meaningless Poll That Sends a Message to Democrats From Superman Reannounces US Citizenship – Action Comics [...]
The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School. – Donald [...]
PROGRESSIVE NOTES: Labor to Organize National Protests, Ryan’s Problems, Latinos Fed Up with Obama
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Labor might be getting wiser. They plan to invest in a nationwide protest movement for worker rights and build new relationships with non union households. More: In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans to use its giant political operation to try to [...]
David Frum Levels Pawlenty While Trump Watches
I’ve been waiting for someone on the Right to say something close to what’s deserved about Mr. Tim Pawlenty and finally someone has. If the GOP wants to finish Trump, GOP candidates had better learn to speak to those anxieties – to offer a remedy more effectual than the snake-oil now being peddled by Tim [...]
Fox Shills for the Super Wealthy
Fox News analysts want taxes on the middle class instead. What’s wrong with a little working class warfare? Russ Douthat tried a similar track today and got his ass handed to him: Ross Douthat struck another blow against fact-based arguments when he told readers that the median family of four has an income of $94,900. [...]
Progressive Notes: The People’s Budget, Reverse Robin Hood, Youth on the Move for Change
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Robin Hood in Reverse. Senator Sanders lets the D.C. elite know that at least one member of the Congress gets it. The Progressive Caucus, smarting from it’s mistakes on healthcare negotiations, this time is confronting Obama and the GOP head on. They have crafted their own [...]
Progressive Infusion Amidst ‘Disgust’
Because it’s Friday and a little sanity is called for amidst the Democratic Party’s cratering to Republican economic models. It should make people understand why many progressive and Democratic activists and lawmakers have had it with Pres. Obama. Rank and file Democrats still support him, but then they don’t have the job of trying to [...]
Trump Leads, Labor Leaders Blast Dems
“… But [it] creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He– he doesn’t have horns…we’re not really worrying about conspiracy theories or– or birth certificates…” – Pres. Barack [...]
Fool Me Once… Fool Me Twice
Howard Fineman, a political veteran, in his most seriously impressed voice, said on MSNBC yesterday that when he was at the White House everyone was in a “feisty, almost angry mood.” Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow said that Pres. Obama’s speech was “perhaps an unexpectedly satisfying speech.” That it was “less Rotary and [...]
Obama Responds with Economic Roadmap
A trick question: If Congress takes no action in coming years, what will happen to the budget deficit? It will shrink — and shrink a lot. This simple fact may offer the best hope for deficit reduction. – David Leonhardt Obama’s reelection econ speech teaser (the part released from embargo): The President is setting a [...]
Obama Reelect Speech on Deficit Reduction
Republicans and even some fiscally conservative Democrats want to use the debt limit fight as leverage to wring more significant spending cuts out of the White House. Politicians of all stripes are worried about how independents will react to a vote — or multiple stop-gap votes — to raise the debt ceiling. Many executives on [...]
Obama Loyalists Make Their Case and It’s Weak
**UPDATED** Obama continues to anger progressives in his party and has created a huge amount of running room to his left: He abandoned a single-payer health care option, he agreed to extend tax cuts to the rich, he has expanded the war in Afghanistan and, instead of keeping his campaign promise to close the detention [...]
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