by Robert Borosage | Nov 7, 2012 | Blog
“The one word description of this election is spelled J-E-E-P,” said a friend early Tuesday evening. “This proves you can’t keep giving the finger to the American people and be elected president,” he said, with evident relief.True enough, in the final days of the...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 7, 2012 | Blog
More than 50 years since the Civil Rights Movement and conservatives are still fighting to keep "the wrong kind of people" from voting. A 97-year-old in Georgia -- who has voted in every single election since she was old enough to vote -- is denied her right to vote....
by Dave Johnson | Nov 7, 2012 | Blog
Today Bain Capital's Sensata is laying off all of its workers and moving all of the jobs to China. The workers asked Mitt Romney to help, and he refused. Did Bain Capital choose the day before the election to say "Ha Ha" to the country and our jobs? Are they setting...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 7, 2012 | Blog
Wow, an entire campaign based on lies… Often they were simply ridiculous lies. (Remember when Romney said Obama will take God off our coins"?) The campaign even used doctored audio and video in ads to make people think Obama had said things he never said. So...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 6, 2012 | Blog
Some people I respect are agonizing over their Presidential vote. Others are voting third-party, or not at all. Speaking only for myself, my choice wasn't made lightly: I'll be voting to re-elect a President whose Administration I've often criticized over the last...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 5, 2012 | Blog
At least seven toss-up races in the House that will be decided Tuesday feature strong progressive challengers trying to unseat Republican incumbents who received zeros in this year's TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide. Victories by progressives in these races will help...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 5, 2012 | Blog
When it comes to politics, it ain't over 'til its' over. And even then it may not be over. With the presidential election just days away, the contest remains close enough to ensure some jangled nerves and nail-biting among Republicans and Democrats. Still, the latest...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 2, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney made jokes about global warming. Now we really know they were not funny. See Forecast the Facts | Tell Mitt Romney: Climate Change Isn't A Joke Much of the nation is reeling from Superstorm Sandy. As families rebuild from Sandy’s destruction, our thoughts...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Austerity is back in the news, and the news about austerity is never good. We've only had de facto austerity on this side of the pond. So as usual, the news is from Europe, where the austerians are going full-tilt boogie. Our homegrown austerians, like their European...
by Bill Scher | Nov 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Stormy Weather OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "First, there was Snowpocalypse. Then there was Snowmageddon. That was followed by Thundersnow. This summer brought the derecho. And most recently, we've been visited by Frankenstorm … Climate...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog, Climate
First, there was Snowpocalypse. Then there was Snowmageddon. That was followed by Thundersnow. This summer brought the derecho. And most recently, we've been visited by Frankenstorm. Aside from their odd names, these events all have a few more things in common. Along...
by Stan Collender | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. You haven't heard much…or perhaps anything…yet about a disaster relief supplemental appropriation for the state and local governments and individuals who were hit so hard by Sandy. But you will, probably...
by Dean Baker | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Originally published at TruthOut. One of the major growth industries in Washington is the promotion of budget hysteria. Well-funded groups have weekly, if not daily, events designed to hype the country’s budget situation. Much of the national media, most importantly...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Poll after poll has shown that the public rejects the millionaire-oriented, tax-cutting, government-slashing austerity plan known as "Simpson Bowles." And yet politicians in both parties keep trying to force it through the legislative process under the banner of a...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Candidate Mitt Romney is trying to "get the job done" of winning, doing anything and saying anything to accomplish that, no matter the hard done in his wake. After doubling down and scaring Ohio's auto workers with his "Jeep moving all its jobs to China" lie, now he...
by Bill Scher | Oct 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Is Sandy God's Stimulus? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Hurricane Sandy was the stimulus nobody wanted. It took a terrible toll in lives, homes, and dreams. For the families who lost loved ones the tragedy will never end. And yet, in a bitter irony,...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney kept quiet last week when the subject was rape and God’s will. He remained silent the week before when the news was all about Illinois factory workers pleading with him to stop his alma mater Bain Capital from offshoring their jobs. At no time this year...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
Even in these tempestuous times, some things are still predictable. Bank CEOs still plead poverty after receiving billion-dollar favors from the government. And there are apparently still reporters who take their word for it. Recently a lawsuit was filed against...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
Last week Mitt Romney delivered possibly the most dishonest presidential campaign speech in American history. It contains lie after lie, distortion after distortion, and trick after trick. The fact that a person capable of giving such a speech has reached this level...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
It's been rumored for some time that my governor, Maryland's Martin O'Malley, is considering a run for the White House in 2016. O'Malley has dropped a few hints himself. He tested the waters at the Democratic convention, and launched a national PAC this summer. If...
by Digby | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
I know it's a tough line to walk, but I think Mitt just fell off of it: “We’re counting on Ohio. I know the people of the Atlantic Coast are counting on Ohio and the rest of our states,” he said, after urging them to donate to the American Red Cross or another relief...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
At last Monday's debate Mitt Romney said the United States is "heading toward Greece." That remark was filled with bitter ironies, not the least of which is the fact that the world's current economic miseries were triggered by financial speculators like Romney...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
The things Mitt Romney says can just astonish you. Romney shows a wondrous perfection of the ability to smile and just say whatever needs to be said at the moment to make the sale. This time he tries to scare Ohioans by saying Jeep is leaving the country and taking...
by Stan Collender | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
The mainstream media and blogosphere lit up like Christmas trees yesterday when 80 CEOs came together to call on Congress and the president to agree on a comprehensive deficit reduction plan that includes revenue increases and spending cuts. Here's David Wessel's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
Americans for Tax Fairness does a pretty devastating take-down of the group of CEOs who were at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday ringing the opening bell under the banner "Fix the Debt." Their picture makes the point: According to their researchers, here is what...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney told a lie Friday, scaring Ohio's Jeep workers with a claim that Jeep is shutting down US manufacturing and moving it to China. Now he is doubling down on this lie with a new ad. He is calculating that the lies will scare enough poorly-informed people to...
by Bill Scher | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Europe's Agony...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
Right now a company named Sensata is moving equipment out of a factory in Freeport, Ill. and shipping it to a factory in China. Sensata will be laying off all of the American workers, but first they are making the workers train their Chinese replacements. The workers'...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Having entered the "closing argument" phase of the campaign, President Obama has pivoted to jobs. But as Bill Scher noted, the president's newly published jobs plan is cribbed from from policies that he's already proposed. President Obama has always enjoyed the...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Education
Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." The campaign kicked off, according to an...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community...
by Bill Scher | Oct 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Jesse Jackson, 13 Others, Arrested At Sensata OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the Bain-owned facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
"Sometimes the dreamers are the only realists" Sen. Paul Wellstone 10 years ago today, a phone call brought the unimaginable news: Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three staff aides and two pilots had died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota....
by Hugh Upton | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney's jobs plan is a collection of bullet points masking the fact that he has literally no proposals to create jobs. President Barack Obama's newly published jobs plan is a collection of bullet points that understates the detail in the jobs policies he has...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The Obama Plan vs. The Romney No Plan OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "Mitt Romney's jobs plan is a collection of bullet points masking the fact that he has literally no proposals to create jobs. President Barack Obama's newly published jobs plan is a...
by Steven Capozzola | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Here we go again. In the Washington Post's 'Wonkbook,' Dylan Matthews trumpets the tired old canard that American consumers benefit from the low price of Chinese imports. Matthews cites a University of Chicago study that tried to estimate how Chinese...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
It turns out that Mitt Romney and Tom Reed (R, NY-23) have more in common than mere party affiliation. Both Romney and Reed are more interested in outsourcing American jobs than creating the kind of good jobs once helped to build and sustain the middle-class. Instead,...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
Wealthy Republican incumbent Mary Bono Mack is locked in a tight and bitter Congressional race against a progressive Democrat with an inspiring story. While her campaign focuses on red-baiting her opponent (yes, they still do that in 2012), a new nonpartisan analysis...
