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...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog
A recent column by Andrew Ross Sorkin is instructive, although not in the way Sorkin might have wished. His portrayal of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as the innocent and beleaguered victim of “writers, editors and bloggers” is likely to stand as a cautionary tale, a...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog
There is a miscalculation at the core of Democratic strategies for ending the shutdown and avoiding default. Democrats keep saying, "They wouldn’t really do that." But this calculation doesn't "get it" about who and what the country is dealing with. Here is the...
