by Dave Johnson | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy
What happened to jobs? The pubic wants government to do something about jobs and getting the economy moving, and in DC the only thing is this weird argument about … anything but jobs and getting the economy moving! "Fiscal cliff?" What about jobs? Fixing the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog
Free speech is a beautiful thing. And it's amazing how free someone's speech becomes -- and how unavoidable -- when they're part of a tiny elite with billions of dollars at its disposal: Suddenly you can "speak" in all the major media outlets. You can "speak" on Fox...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog
"All of a sudden it seems like there is a movement afoot of people saying we're going to push back." "And you know what? There should be a pushback." Henry Blodgett, in Why We Need Labor Unions After All Anyway, it would be great if companies would start sharing their...
by Digby | Dec 5, 2012 | Blog
In case you were wondering who are the biggest jackasses in the Senate, here's a handy list: Alexander (R-TN) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP "counter-offer" to the President's fiscal-cliff proposal isn't really an offer at all: It's a rehash of the tired and extremist right-wing economic warfare...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
If any conference was in need of a disruption, it was the "Fix the Debt" roundtable held this morning in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown Washington. It took a group of protestors—among them a couple of African-American senior women, a male college...
