by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
With one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, the debate among Republican primary voters for the moment is between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. It would be premature to conclude that it stays that way all month -- the top two candidates in the Dec. 2003 Iowa polls...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Democrats are salivating -- or as Rachel Maddow put it -- cheering, screaming, crying -- at the prospect of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich becoming the Republican presidential nominee. And why not? Gingrich, conservative George Will writes, "embodies the vanity...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Once again, Republicans are holding government hostage, trying to force through unpopular cuts to the things We, the People -- "the 99%" -- do for each other and our economy, while giving handouts to the 1% who pay for their campaign ads and smears. Once again they...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
The public overwhelmingly wants taxes on the 1% increased to help pay for things that help the 99% and our economy. But the Senate was prevented from even voting on this. This was a filibuster. A minority that represents the 1% was able to block something demanded by...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
James Thwinda has a great post up at In These Times about "Why Conservatives Can't Fix Poverty." He zeroes in on Newt Gingrich as the prime example of the contemporary conservative approach to poverty, debunks the right's "distorted characterization of poor people,"...
