by Dave Johnson | Mar 21, 2014 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
How often do you hear the argument that it is alright for our trade agreements to hurt our own workers because people in other countries are getting work or better pay? Here is the problem with that: The world's countries follow an adversarial system, with each...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Former Clinton Chief of Staff Thomas 'Mack' McLarty has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling on Democrats to support more "free trade." His basic argument: More trade is always better. But is the goal more trade, or trade that benefits We the People of the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, only to get his knuckles rapped by the very scholars whose work he cribbed, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 11, 2014 | Conservatism, The 2015 Budget, This Is The GOP
“Shut up!” That’s what Republican darling Darrell Issa told a Democrat who tried to speak at a public hearing last week. Issa didn’t deign to actually talk to a Democrat; instead he cut the microphones so the Democrat couldn’t be heard. Rep. Issa, R-Calif., silenced...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the world watched as Ukrainians threw out their Russian-puppet president, and Russian president Vladimir Putin prepared to invade. Conservatives, naturally, have decided that it’s all President Obama’s fault. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R, SC) summed it all up...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Paul Ryan says that "the left" is offering Americans "a full stomach and an empty soul." The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs and empty rhetoric . The American people want more than that. Near the end of his Thursday...
