by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
If Mike Huckabee ever wants to meet Uncle Sugar, he need only look in the mirror. Earlier today, Huckabee invented quite the straw man in the not-so-controversial debate over the Obamacare provision requiring health insurers to cover contraception: "If the Democrats...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Republicans voted for a budget that caved in to many of their economy-sabotaging, hostage-ransom austerity demands. Now the "debt ceiling" has to be raised in February so the government can pay for that budget that Republicans voted for. Republicans are saying no way...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2014 | Blog
Republicans smell an election opportunity – but only if they can keep the economy down, jobs down and wages down. Most recently to keep people and the economy miserable they filibustered long-term unemployment assistance, and are working to cut back from the meager 26...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
This morning's Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) AAM Early Shift Digest email asks, "What would a full-fledged manufacturing policy look like?" In this moment of calm, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) is getting its ducks in a row. This week we’re...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
In West Virginia after a cavalier chemical company poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 people, the corporate-hugging, right-wing extremist group Americans for the Prosperous congratulated itself for doling out bottled water one day. “What better way to help people...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog
Today's ridiculous attack on teacher unions is one that accuses them of supporting sexual predators in schools. Let's see if we can figure out what's behind it. In a Wall Street Journal hit-piece, Campbell Brown – you may remember her as a former television news...
