by Dave Johnson | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
If you think Republicans have learned a lesson from their "defeat" over the shutdown and debt-ceiling hostage-taking, then you're not paying attention to what they’re saying to each other online, on the radio and elsewhere. Here is a quick look around right-wing...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2013 | Blog
Republicans are always saying their policies will bring prosperity, to get people to vote for them. But when their policies are actually put to the test we see very different results. (Just look at how our society has been transformed since Reagan.) A recent study...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
According to anonymous Capitol Hill sources, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi cautioned Democratic members of Congress on Thursday against "gloating" over the spectacular crash-and-burn that was the Republicans' government shutdown. No gloating over the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Republicans believe that a bad economy works for them at election time. The thinking is that the public will turn on Democrats for not making things better. So they do what they can to make the economy bad. But maybe they went too far this time. This hostage-taking...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Democrats stood strong and look what happened! The Republican government shutdown has collapsed and their threats to blow up the economy backfired blowing them up instead. So now is the time to finally push for JOBS! Democrats literally stepped in at the last minute...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Republicans finally caved. In the third week of the government shutdown, on the eve of an unimaginable default on U.S. debts, the craven Republican leadership, for months cowed by Tea Party zealots, finally ended its destructive folly. Majorities in both the Senate...
