by Digby | Feb 26, 2014 | Blog
Hmm: The shift toward greater liberal self-identification has been led by Democrats. Currently, 43% of Democrats say they are liberal, a nearly 50% increase from 29% in 2000. Over the same period, the percentage of Democrats identifying as moderate is down to 36% from...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 25, 2014 | Blog
Right-wing billionaires threw a hissy fit in recent weeks. The 99 percent are persecuting them, the wealthy ones whined. That whole Occupy Wall Street thing hurt their feelings, conservative 1 percenters pouted. The right-wing rich didn’t threaten to take their...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 21, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It's been another rough week on the right. A high-profile GOP governor, and potential 2016 presidential contender, could be brought low by a trove of scandalous emails. And it's not Chris Christie. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is up for reelection this year, and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog
The public gets it that one-sided trade agreements are shipping jobs out of the country – and they want our government to do something about it. A new Gallup poll shows that jobs and unemployment has risen to the No. 1 spot on the country's "most important problem"...
by Bill Scher | Feb 18, 2014 | Blog
Seven years ago, Newt Gingrich stood next to John Kerry said that there is "clear agreement that human activity has helped increase the level of [global] warming" and therefore, "it is a problem, we should address it and we should address it very actively." There is...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 17, 2014 | Blog
Today is the fifth anniversary of the day President Obama signing the "stimulus," the American Recovery Act. In December I published this post," Did The Stimulus Work? See For Yourself." On this anniversary occasion, we republish it, in full: Did the "stimulus" work?...
