by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play — at our expense. And big oil giants like ExxonMobil have been outraging Americans for years. But plenty of other corporate giants that inflate our inequality...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
“The game is rigged and the American people know that. They get it right down to their toes.” — Senator Elizabeth Warren This week, the House Ways and Means Committee is poised to demonstrate exactly how the rules are rigged. On Tuesday, the committee will begin to...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, they didn’t come any nuttier than Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, and the right-wing pundits and politicians who rushed to support his “range war" against the federal government. Revolution was almost nigh, until Bundy shot off his mouth. It’s hard to blame...
by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday Speaker John Boehner, right after acknowledging the video camera in the room, proceeded to blast Republicans afraid to vote on immigration. In a high-pitched mock whine, he impersonated his colleagues: "Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this! Ohhhh. This is too hard!"...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
[fve]http://youtu.be/FbnRnhrNFEY[/fve] "Dog-whistle," "code word" politics is not about what the politician says, it's about what the listener hears. Mitt Romney says this: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
