by Dave Johnson | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
See if you can spot the common theme in the latest the conservative message machine pumped out today and in the last few days. Heritage Foundation: Obama Keeps Turning His Back on Jobs: This week, President Obama is again set to make a pitch for his latest plan to...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2011 | Blog
Republicans are threatening a scheme to block yet another part of the government - the NLRB, this time - from functioning, for the purpose of enriching the 1% while driving even more of us out of the middle class. Senate Republicans are participating in this scheme by...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 22, 2011 | Blog
Let's hope that the failure of the "super committee" quest to take money out of the economy clears the media mist for a minute, so people can focus on real issues that matter to real people. What are the chances of that? Will our government now focus on creating jobs,...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
I just wanted to say a few quick things about deficits and the "super committee." 1) Never forget that 11 years ago we had a huge budget surplus and were on track to pay off the entire debt in 10 years. Then came the Bush tax cuts for the rich and a huge military...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
A government that says corporate money is “speech” dispatches lines of police to stop actual human-being citizens from actually speaking out. It's all right there in front of us: Wall Street got bailouts, the rich got tax cuts, corporations got to buy elections,...