by Dave Johnson | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
Republicans are saying they are going to either gut the government or shut it down. They mean it. It's gut or shut, and they are not going to allow a third choice. This is not just posturing and they are not likely to engage in bipartisan bargaining. Their rhetoric...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 6, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Who is our country for? Is this a country for We, the People, where all of us are banded together to protect and empower each other, together? Or is this a country where a powerful few reap all the benefits, and the rest of us are little more than "the help?" That is...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 6, 2011 | Blog
VIDEO Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and other members of the Progressive Caucus react to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Here we are only four months into Republican control of the House of Representatives and the government is shutting...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
How often have you looked up from a "news report" in disgust at the way our modern news media tries to be cover for conservative lunacy and extremism? There is a template that stamps out the false equivalences: "Both sides do it." They find something extreme written...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
This morning Representative Jan Schakowsky responded to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's statement that Social Security and Medicare "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." Schakowsky said, “There are two stark visions of our...
