by Bill Scher | Jan 21, 2010 | Blog
Whenever I'm discussing with friends the frustrations of the legislative process, the influence of corporate lobbyists invariably comes up. And that usually leads my friends to declare we won't accomplish anything without public financing of political campaigns. I've...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
The numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll released Wednesday by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. It was, as Robert Borosage on our site said earlier today and as such...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
The blogs and airwaves are full of explanations for the MA Senate special election's outcome, mostly involving people being upset at particulars of the health care bill. But I don't really think that the people who voted were all that well-informed about differences...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
It hurts to lose a Senate seat but, hey - setbacks happen in politics. What's really discouraging is the sight of Democrats, from the White House on down, refusing to accept responsibility for their own part in this loss. That, more than the loss itself, is reason for...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
Banks still aren't lending, and it's getting worse for small businesses - the nation's jobs engine. Why did we bail out the big banks, again? Why can't our government just hire people like we did in the depression, and why can't our government just loan to the job...
by Bill Scher | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
Earlier today, progressive leaders representing more than 50 organizations declared their opposition to the Conrad-Gregg debt commission proposal, which is expected to be introduced on the Senate floor soon as part of the bill to allow the federal to meet its...
