by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney released a new ad today about welfare reform. It's a stone-cold lie. The ad's narrator says: "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check." That's a wild fabrication. As my...
by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
While on The David Pakman Show yesterday, host David Pakman asked me why I thought Mitt Romney has proven to be such a bad candidate. The conventional wisdom is that Romney is weird, aloof, socially awkward and removed from the lives of average Americans. All that may...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
We tend to over-emphasize personalities in our politics especially in Presidential campaigns. It matters who's President, of course, but our national elections are the product of much larger economic and social forces. They're increasingly dominated by a few financial...
by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Talented Mr....
by Leo Gerard | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
In the case of fetuses and rich people, Republicans insist on the sanctity of life. But in the case of destitute people, infants who imprudently choose working-poor parents and struggling young adults – basically all riffraff unable to afford health insurance – the...
