by | Sep 27, 2012 | Blog
This is awful, but I expect it happens every day and is only getting worse with the GOP assault on the "parasites": Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., said she and her husband aren't proud when they use their food stamp debit card to buy groceries. "I felt shy when I...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 27, 2012 | Blog
The Huffington Post's new online video component is called HuffPost Live. This week we did a segment, hosted by Alyona Minkovski, based on my piece on the Romney vide, called "The Radical Rich." The other panelists were Anthony Badami, who is Senior Associate and...
by Bill Scher | Sep 27, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney arguably lost Ohio on November 18, 2008, when he penned an oped titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." Today, 64% of Ohio voters call President Obama's restructuring of the auto industry "mostly good." Mitt Romney arguably lost Florida, with its heavy...
by Bill Scher | Sep 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: No Grand Bargain Without Jobs Trigger OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The presidential candidates and Congress should be pressed to adopt a budget version of the 'jobs trigger.' Putting people back to work is the first step to getting our books in...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2012 | Blog
Strange stories from the newswires: Thousands of Wall Street traders subscribe to "financial astrology" newsletters. A series of wealthy Americans erupt into rage-filled public outbursts. Mitt Romney wonders why you can't open a jet's windows in mid-flight. This isn't...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Ohio is the center of the Presidential election, and the center of the fight over manufacturing policy and trade policy. Polls overwhelmingly show that the public gets it that the trade deal with China is the core of the problem. So both campaigns are making promises...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2012 | Blog
People want the President to exert leadership to turn things around. The oil leak. Unemployment. Credit card scams. Foreclosures. Predatory corporations. Environmental destruction. Global warming. Roads and bridges crumbling. Incomes stagnant. Schools getting worse....
by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2012 | Blog
Well here's a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President Obama, clean energy, national energy policy,...
by Bill Scher | Sep 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Austerity Is The New Greek Tragedy OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "Thousands of Greeks who still have jobs are joining a general strike this week, in another attempt to bring down the curtain on the whole show … Unemployment in Greece has hit...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been all bluster and no action on China's cheating on trade, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said today, and the proof is in a bill that would address China's cheating that is currently languishing in the House despite broad,...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, son of an American Motors CEO, naturally says he loves American cars. His wife, as he put it, “drives a couple of Cadillacs.” He’s installing an elevator in his beach mansion just for his cars. Though a millionaire, he rejected...
by | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog
So Mitt Romney now believes that everyone should use the emergency room for their health care needs if they don't have insurance. Or, at least, it sounded that way. (Bold Progressives caught him saying something quite different back in 2007, before health care became...
by | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. I've come to the conclusion that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is going to have a very difficult time making any deal with the Democrats during the lame duck session on taxes and spending – that is, on preventing the...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog
Audio of Rep. Paul Ryan speaking to the Atlas Society's "Celebration of Ayn Rand," 2005 *** When they booed Paul Ryan at the American Association of Retired Persons last week, most people didn't even know he called Medicare and Social Security "third party or...
by Bill Scher | Sep 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Death By Austerity OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "Americans now stand a greater chance of dying from the effects of austerity than being killed in a car crash. At least that's what a new report suggests, if you read between the lines. The study,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2012 | Blog
In California there is a dangerous, deceptive proposition on the ballot that promises to get "special interest" money out of our elections, and is being sold as a way to stop the flood of corporate money. But actually this proposition doesn't stop corporate money at...
by | Sep 24, 2012 | Blog
Krugman points out in his column today that Mitt Romney declared himself to be the confidence fairy in his Boca remarks, saying that he really didn't need to have an economic program, his election would be enough to lift all those boats without breaking a sweat. The...
by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 2012 | Blog
With Mitt Romney once again caught trying to defend his low tax rate, the booing of Paul Ryan at the AARP convention has become a bit overlooked. But it raises a two big questions: 1. Who thought it was a good idea to send Paul Ryan to the AARP convention? 2. Who...
by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 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: The Self-Made Myth...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 23, 2012 | Blog
In real life, working hard only takes you so far. Those who go all the way — to grand fortune — typically get a substantial head start. So documents an entertaining, baseball-themed new analysis of the Forbes 400. Let’s cut Mitt Romney some slack. Not every...
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 Bill Scher | Sep 21, 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: 4 Reasons Romney...
by | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog
The following was originally published at RobertReich.org. Can Romney possibly recover? A survey conducted between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16 by the Pew Research Center — before the “47 percent victim” video came to light – showed Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43% among...
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...
by Steven Capozzola | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Let's look at some simple stats… U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2000: 17,292,000 U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2012: 11,860,000 Annual U.S. trade deficit with China in 2000: $83.8 billion Annual U.S. trade deficit with China in 2011: $295.4...
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
For a long time — basically ever since Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell infamously stated that the Republican Party's #1 goal was to defeat President Obama — it has been plainly obvious that the Republican Party was committed to a strategy of...
by Bill Scher | Sep 20, 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: Senate Republicans...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
The young men and women who serve in our military return from fighting in the longest wars in American history to the worst jobs market in generations. They suffer higher unemployment rates than the general population: More than one in 10 is officially counted as...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Just when you think Mitt Romney couldn't sink his well-heeled foot any deeper into his mouth, he shoves it in even further. The outrage over his dishonest, political point-scoring over the Muslim riots in Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya was still unfolding, when Romney...
by | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Take a look at this story by Jeremy Herb from The Hill yesterday and be prepared to stifle a huge scream. As Herb wrote, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen...
by Bill Scher | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog
Today I appeared on the Massachusetts/Vermont radio station The River to discuss the state of presidential race (click here for the audio), and why President Obama is ahead. I said, in short, that Obama is winning because of the issues. This is not what your hear in...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Mitt Romney was caught on video complaining that 47% of us don't make enough to pay taxes, believe they are victims, are dependent on government, etc. The right question is why do so many of us make so little? Moving Jobs To Places Where People Don't Have A Say You...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog
Two recent movements have transformed the political landscape. The Occupy movement literally operates in the light of day. The other movement operates in secrecy, with money as its "speech" rather than … well, you know, speech. The Romney video offers us a rare...
by | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog
"My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Mitt Romney "Let them eat cake" -Marie Antoinett Based on what Greg Sargent points out in this post, most Americans don't feel the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 19, 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: Fear The Radical...
by | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog
Editor's Note: Yesterday, Rep. Keith Ellison introduced new legislation that would raise billions to invest in our economy by taxing highly speculative financial transactions. The Inclusive Prosperity Act (H.R. 6411) would tax the sale of stocks, bonds and derivatives...
by | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog
When this issue of the 47% not paying any federal income taxes (who also, apparently are the only ones voting for Barack Obama) came up in the GOP primary, Romney complained that "everyone needs to pay their fair share." Coming from a man who refuses to tell the...
