by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Washington is headed immediately into the fiscal showdown, with fierce pressure to use the arbitrary year-end deadline for the termination of various tax cuts and the automatic cut or sequester of some 9 percent of discretionary spending to force a grand bargain. Here...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 7, 2012 | Blog
“The one word description of this election is spelled J-E-E-P,” said a friend early Tuesday evening. “This proves you can’t keep giving the finger to the American people and be elected president,” he said, with evident relief.True enough, in the final days of the...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
"Sometimes the dreamers are the only realists" Sen. Paul Wellstone 10 years ago today, a phone call brought the unimaginable news: Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three staff aides and two pilots had died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota....
by Robert Borosage | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
“I agree,” said Mitt Romney, and so he did, with the same passionate intensity with which he previously scorned the president’s foreign policies from one corner of the country to another. On Iran, on Afghanistan, on drones, on Libya, on using military force, on...
