by Terrance Heath | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday, I posted a compilation of the responses of 47-Percenters to the now infamous Romney fundraiser video, in which Mitt Romney basically writes off as lazy moochers the 47 percent of Ameiricans who don't earn enough to owe federal income taxes. Both the Romney...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In a 1994 science-fiction novel called Interface, a Presidential candidate has an electronic chip in his brain that links his mind to real-time polling data. His words, deeds, even his thoughts are immediately responsive to the public mood. Mitt Romney seems a lot...
by | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
By: Stephen Miles and William Hartung(Crossposted at The Huffington Post and Win Without War)This week in Washington the halls of Congress have been flooded with talk about looming cuts to the Pentagon. With members of Congress floating plans to undo planned cuts...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Republicans won't abandon the Obama's-gutting-welfare-reform lie, no matter how often it is discredited. Today Republicans took the lie to the House floor, in the form of a resolution that would block the implementation of a Health and Human Services memorandum that...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Bloggers and pundits have completely picked apart what Mitt Romney had to say about "the 47 percent" in that secret video leaked by Mother Jones magazine. As I posted yesterday, we know that nearly 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes, because they...
