by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | This Is The GOP
Republicans are going to spend August "blaming President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats for Americans' unhappiness with government." Their theme will be "Government is the problem." That's right, they're going to blame government, not themselves. But in the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
Two stories in the news today illustrate what is happening to the middle class. One story is about numbers showing how the middle is being squeezed. The other is about how people are literally being squished. "The new business model, apparently, is to shrink the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog
The blogosphere is talking about how Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor was caught in an outright falsehood about the country's deficit, and how PolitiFact backed him up. Cantor said Sunday that Congress should be "focused on trying to deal with the ultimate...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2013 | Making it in America
The enormous, humongous, vast, staggering, unbelievable, job-sucking, economy-sucking US trade deficit shrank to "only" $34.2 billion from a revised $44.1 billion in May. Exports of US goods and petroleum were up, imports of petroleum and consumer goods were down....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 5, 2013 | Blog
Union and environmental leaders arrested together over immigration? What's up? Here is what's up: Corporate-funded conservatives ... "view us as one threat, and fundamentally we are acting like that now, as one threat." Corporate-Conservative War On Democracy For...
