by Digby | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog
In case you were wondering who are the biggest jackasses in the Senate, here's a handy list: Alexander (R-TN) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi...
by Bill Scher | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the Fiscal Cliff OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "This rehash of their old, rejected budget ideas is a formula for reducing the United States of America to a crumbling and poverty-haunted land where the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP "counter-offer" to the President's fiscal-cliff proposal isn't really an offer at all: It's a rehash of the tired and extremist right-wing economic warfare...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
If any conference was in need of a disruption, it was the "Fix the Debt" roundtable held this morning in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown Washington. It took a group of protestors—among them a couple of African-American senior women, a male college...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Who are the real "job creators"? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the answer seems to be: People who have jobs - particularly those which pay well. Well-paid employees buy things, and that creates jobs for other people. And what creates those kinds of jobs? A...
