by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
Lest we forget where the huge deficits and debt came from... On August 25, 2001, just seven months after taking office, George W. Bush learned that his budgets had already erased the previous administration's huge surplus -- that was paying off our country's debt at a...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
A village cannot revise village life to suit the village idiot. -- Frank Schaeffer On Tuesday, the Daily Kos published a new Research 2000 study showing the current state of belief in the GOP. Though the results aren't anything new -- indeed, the study just puts hard...
by Tula Connell | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
Mike Hall on our AFL-CIO Now Blog staff wrote about the latest Republican maneuvering to kill a qualified nominee for the nation's Labor Board and I want to share it with you. Republican Senate leaders are so frightened that a member of the National Labor Relations...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous The GOP is unable and unwilling to have a serious conversation with Americans about the fix we are in. Instead the party's leaders posture and pose, as practiced as a Gregorian chorus in chanting their poll tested messaging that...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
We expect January’s unemployment numbers, to be released Friday, to show that while Wall Street bankers continue to thrive, American workers continue to suffer under a deep recession. The numbers should serve as a stark reminder to Congress that the time to act...
