by Jeff Bryant | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog, Education
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," has become a popular mantra of the ruling class. Of course, these are not the people who usually experience the brunt of a crisis. But a pervasive narrative in the mainstream media is that Americans are a people beset...
by Digby | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
Nobody who reads this blog will be the least bit surprised by this turn of events: A growing chorus of Republicans is urging House leaders to abandon their staunch opposition to higher tax rates for the wealthy with the aim of clearing the way for a broad deal that...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
Since the days of Lee Atwater, Republicans have relied on the politics of division and persecution fantasies. James Inhofe road into the Senate in 1994 on a platform of "God, Guns and Gays." Now? Not so much. Americans just aren't as afraid of the gays as they used...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
The other day in the post Call Your Member Of Congress And Say “Discharge Petition,” I wrote about how Nancy Pelosi wants members of Congress to sign what is known as a “discharge petition” to force a vote on keeping taxes at current levels for people making under...
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...
