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Sam Pizzigati's picture

Election 2012 and Our Sensible Super Rich

Take all that post-election commentary about foolish billionaires and wasted millions in political contributions with a grain of salt. Our billionaires don't have to actually win on Election Day to get their way.

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Dave Johnson's picture

Fiscal Cliff Scare Talk Follows Shock Doctrine Script

Anyone who has read The Shock Doctrine understands exactly what this "Fiscal Cliff" scare is. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Sensata vs Solyndra

The public looked at the stories about Solyndra and Sensata and voted. They voted for clean energy jobs IN the US, not for vulture capitalism that ships our jobs and industries OUT of the US. They voted to act as a united country instead of a leaving everyone on their own, in it only for themselves. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: Obama Has Political Capital

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Dave Johnson's picture

Democracy Pushes Forward

In the last election the forces of concentrated wealth and corporate power played the same old divide-and-conquer game they have been playing for decades, but this time it didn't work! They tried to divide us by race, religion, sex, sexual preference, class and every other wedge they could find, and it didn't work! The era of dividing the people for profit is over. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Republicans Should Pretend It's Romney's First Day And Act On China

Romney promised that he would act on China's currency manipulation "on his first day." So Republicans can pretend Romney won, and actually act on China's currency manipulation! If they would actually do what they promised to do we could get a lot a lot of "job creation" going on. Or will they continue to obstruct? more »

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Isaiah J. Poole's picture

Our new blog page is at Blog.OurFuture.org

Our new blog page is more readable, more shareable and is more compatible with your mobile device. Go to Blog.OurFuture.org now »

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Bill Scher's picture

Progressive Breakfast

On the menu this morning:
  • MORNING MESSAGE: The Triumph of Middle Class Populism
  • "Welcome to Liberal America"
  • GOP Heads Towards Intra-Party Civil War
  • Senate Turns Left

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Robert Borosage's picture

The Triumph of Middle Class Populism

“The one word description of this election is spelled J-E-E-P,” said a friend early Tuesday evening. “This proves you can’t keep giving the finger to the American people and be elected president,” he said, with evident relief. more »

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Digby's picture

Election Day Gossip: Tainting The Victory, Faithless Electors And More

Take the conversation related at the beginning of this article with a grain of salt since it's a "my sister's best friend's brother told me" sort of thing, but I think it's a fair representation of the way the conservatives are gaming out their strategy in case it's close and Obama wins the electoral col more »

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