by Digby | Jun 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is a fascinating account of how the Grand Bargain came to be the tired conventional wisdom among the Village wonk crowd. (I'm characterizing it that way, not the author, the esteemed Larry Mishel. ) It's required reading for anyone who has been following this...
by Digby | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
I don't know if it's a "movement" but it's good to see it anyway: When Tammy Baldwin delivered her first floor speech on the Senate floor late last month, she did not expect to create a national stir—let alone a movement. But Baldwin’s progressive-populist call for a...
by Digby | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I read this piece in the Daily Caller yesterday, I have to admit I thought "oh hell." I assumed there was a good explanation for why the IRS commissioner had spent so much time in the White House (they aren't so dumb that they would openly plan an IRS jihad...
by Digby | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
The New York Times has published an article about what some of the groups the IRS subjected to scrutiny actually did. And it is very informative. It would appear that many of these people were lying about their activities or "understood" their political activities to...
by Digby | May 24, 2013 | Blog
The following chart measures the growth of hunger over the past few years in Europe and the US: If you can't afford food, there's really nowhere to go but up. That's why it's so shocking just how many more hungry people there are now in what were formerly known as the...
