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?...
by Bill Scher | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog
Earlier today I brought my annoying optimism to MSNBC to make the case that Washington is not broken. Yes, Republicans are furiously obstructing all they can, and this Congress may be end up being one of the least productive in history. But Republicans have relented...
