by Jim Hightower | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he has an idea! This is news because the GOP leadership hasn’t offered a new idea in years. Instead, they’ve simply been the party of no, opposing...
by Bill Scher | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
For Politico Magazine, I conducted an informal survey of Bernie Sanders supporters to gauge reaction to a possible vice-presidential nomination of Sen. Tim Kaine. The reaction was not good. His support for fast-track trade authority, spending cuts, offshore drilling...
by Bill Scher | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Whenever you listen to Donald Trump speak about trade, as he did Tuesday in Pittsburgh, always keep in front of your mind that he is peddling a con. He slams recent trade agreements by "the politicians," and promises to negotiate "great deals," but he never explains...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A Canadian corporation is suing the us because we wouldn't let them build a pipeline across our country (seizing people's property along the way) so they could sell oil to China. They can do this because we signed a trade agreement that places corporate rights above...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
After mouthing off in ways that had the effect of repeatedly shooting himself in the foot, Donald Trump tried to recover last week by puffing himself up as the jobs candidate. “When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Democratic party's elites must not think that trade and jobs will be big issues in the coming election. Apparently, they've never listened to a Donald Trump speech, and didn't notice that working-class people in the United Kingdom just voted to "brexit" from the...
