by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Economy, Populist Majority, State of the Union
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday before President Obama's State of the Union address, and a Democracy Corps focus group polled during the speech, indicate that President Obama wins, and Democrats in Congress will win, with a progressive...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
The organizer of a February 8 "moral march" on Raleigh, N.C. says he wants the largest mass demonstration in the South since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Ala., civil right march to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures around the country....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2014 | The Jobs Challenge, Unemployment Benefits
[fve]http://youtu.be/IodMh1T-eVw[/fve] As Republican senators were preparing to head to their home states Thursday for a week-long recess, several of them told The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff that they have no regrets about filibustering an extension of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Conservatives can't seem to help themselves. Even when they try to put on a face of compassion and creativity, they end up coming off at best as stale and clueless. That is precisely what happened when Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., gave his speech on the War on Poverty...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 7, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Now that the Senate has disarmed a filibuster threat and cleared the way for legislative debate on emergency extended unemployment benefits, it's time to take on this specious Republican demand that an extension of these benefits have to be "paid for" – particularly...
