by Bill Scher | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog
Last week, three Republican senators expected to run for president, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, sat for an extended roundtable discussion with ABC's Jonathan Karl. While it was hosted by the Koch brothers organization Freedom...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives are constantly talking about Obama's "radical, far-left agenda." "At last!", I said. Hearing their whines and complaints I became hopeful that our government would finally serve We, the People instead of the big corporations and the wealthy. But then,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
Will Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., be seduced by the siren song of bipartisanship and allow the nation's largest banks to gamble with what amounts to a taxpayer-paid insurance policy? There was a somewhat encouraging word from Dodd at...
by Bill Scher | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
The New York Times made quite an assertion in its news pages -- not the oped page -- today: "For Mr. Obama and his successors, the effect of those [deficit] projections is clear: Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromises, creates some unforeseen...
by Zach Carter | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
In a landmark decision last week, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited funds to influence American elections, overturning a century of legal precedent. The Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC undermines the integrity of the U.S....
by Robert Borosage | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense. 1. The huge deficits are caused primarily by the economic downturn, and the...
