by Leo Gerard | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Instead of the plodding turtle he's normally satirized as, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is all cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof about Trade Promotion Authority, better known as Fast Track. He said as Congress convened this month that he wants to fast track Fast Track....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is trying to get people talking about the trade deficit and the harm it is doing our wages, our jobs and our potential for mutual prosperity. He's right to do this. Last week Grayson spoke at a press conference with several other House...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 9, 2015 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the world joined with the people of France in mourning and solidarity, following a deadly terrorist attack on the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper. Wingnuts wasted no time scoring political points. On Wednesday, men wearing hoods and wielding AK–47s...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It’s time to say goodbye to 2014, and wrap-up the first year of “Wingnut Week In Review.” But first, let’s trudge down memory lane and recall the best of the worse in wingnuttia this year. Meanwhile, Back At Bundy Ranch It all started when Cliven Bundy declared a...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
As soon as the new Congress is sworn in next year, the fight over Fast Track will begin. Start preparing now. David Cay Johnston, explains in "Full Speed Ahead On Secretive Trade Deal": (Note the 't' in his last name. I am David C JohnSON.) Early next year, after the...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Santa Cruz came to town this week, when Sen. Ted Cruz (R, Texas) inadvertently gave Senate Democrats an early holiday gift. Democrats taunted Cruz and Republicans cursed him for pulling a parliamentary shenanigan that let Democrats push through two dozen nominations...
