NATIONAL REPUBLICANS who continue to be frustrated that the American voter won’t reward their extremism with handing them the national popular vote have started systematically to take voters out of the equation. It’s been making the news for days in Virginia. American Progress has released a document titled Grand Theft Election. How the Republican election-rigging [...]
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Top Story: Obama in Michigan, Battleground in “Right to Work” [Full Remarks and Video]
MICHIGAN IS about to become the latest state where right to work for less replaces a living wage. Nothing compares to having right to work here in the heart of where the most important American union, the UAW, began. You might think I’m sentimental, with all of this twaddle about union “romance” and the blood [...]
MSNBC Bests Fact Free FNC
THE OBAMA network, aka MSNBC for those in an alternate universe, is annoying, because the American public has learned not to trust anyone because of our media picking sides. However, considering the prowess Fox News had achieved since its founding it’s clear something had to be done, so NBC did it. In the election of [...]
Top Story: Obama’s Winnings and the Unreasonable Liberal
“If you want to pull the party, the major party that is closest to the way you’re thinking to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them they don’t have to listen to you, [...]
Debates Over, Republican Noise Tries to Drown Out Reality [Videos]
THE RACE is tied. Ohio still looking like the Democratic firewall, thanks to Mitt Romney, a state he has to win, but Obama needs, too. The notion that Sen. Harry Reid would let Nevada slip to Romney is laughable, when you think of scenarios to 270. So now that the debates are over, perhaps people [...]
Top Story: Mitt Romney’s Talking Points to Business Owners and Political Pressure on Employees
In the post-Citizens United era, “there is not much political protection for at-will employees in the private sector workplace,” explains University of Marquette Law Professor Paul Secunda, a pro-union labor lawyer. “It is conceivable, under the current legal regime, that an employer like Koch could actually get away with forcing his employees, on pains of [...]
Obama has Added to Lack of Faith in Institutions and Democratic Governance
IT WAS THE most important thing said on the Sunday political shows. It not only goes to the lack of faith in institutions, but to the challenging of actual objective facts that now pervades our politics. MR. TODD: Stop here. This has been– this is really making me crazy. The Federal Reserve gets questioned out [...]
Biden Prepares for Debate with Ryan
THE VICE presidential debate is Thursday, with right wingers like Mike Huckabee laughing gleefully about the Biden gaffe factor. Larry Sabato, the Virginia prognosticator, had the same talking point on Fox News Channel today, too. What we should hope to see on Thursday is blue collar issues versus austerity, which is coming to this country [...]
Paul Ryan and Scott Walker Weigh in on Replacement Refs
Paul Ryan on packers game: “give me a break! it is time to get the real refs.” — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) September 25, 2012 “The integrity of the game is at stake here.” – Rush Limbaugh THE PACKERS game last night and the disastrous final call has made union men out of Tea Party favorites [...]
Team Obama is Cheap
TEAM ROMNEY is not cheap, if you compare what he is paying his campaign staff. The line reads: “the president appears to be getting a much bigger bang for his buck.” That’s true. If you think underpaying campaign workers is laudable, which I don’t. From the Los Angeles Times: According to an analysis by the [...]
Peggy Noonan to Romney: “Mitt, this isn’t working.”
IT’S BEEN a very bad few weeks for Mitt Romney, which just got worse. How bad is it? Read Peggy Noonan today. Republicans are going to have to right this thing. They have to stabilize it. It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. It’s not big, it’s not brave, it’s not [...]
Top Story: Democrats Prepare to Celebrate in Anti Union North Carolina
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Labor has no place to go.” – Chris Hayes WHAT WOULD Democrats be without labor? Where would they be? What would the American middle class look like without unions? Before we met, my own husband was in a situation for many years in [...]
Top Story: Al Gore, Time to End the Electoral College
“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Top Story: Paul Ryan Lands, Received as New Conservative Leader
“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours,” Ryan said. “My mom started a small business, and I’ve seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles [...]
Queer Talk: Tammy Baldwin – LPAC, eQuality Giving Endorse Her Senate Run
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Will Romney’s Wisconsin VP pick have an effect on Tammy Baldwin’s run for the Senate in that state? More directly, of course, is how her recently determined Republican opponent for the Wisconsin Senate seat – Tommy Thompson – will do. Baldwin picked up the endorsement [...]
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