Woo Hoo! Elizabeth Warren May Run for the Senate!

If she runs, I will gladly volunteer for her campaign as she will be challenging Tea Party dunce Scott Brown of Massachusetts (where I live). It would be so nice to have faith in a politician again. From Huffington Post: ormer Obama adviser and longtime consumer protection advocate Elizabeth Warren is moving toward a Senate […]

Obama Pushing Job-Killing Free Trade Agreements that He Opposed as a Candidate

Here’s what Candidate Obama said about these lousy trade deals at in 2008. See here and here. There are three short videos at the link that are really worth watching because it shows what a bunch of BS this administration is selling us. Experts say these trade agreements will result in net job losses as […]

Where is the Honest Debate on Afghanistan?

I know that the MSM can’t walk and chew gum at the same time despite having a 24/7 news cycle and I know that most Americans really don’t know or care all that much about foreign policy, but given that on Saturday the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in the history of the Afghan War […]

Quote of the Day

“No risk of that, no risk.” — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during an interview in April, discussing the risk of the U.S. debt being downgraded.

The Rich are Getting Richer, the Middle Class is Disappearing But Hey, the Military Industrial Complex is Doing Well!

We are a nation in decline. Defense spending continues to increase, labor unions and public employees are being scapegoated for our economic problems, the tax code favors the rich and on and on. Some millionaires in the U.S. paid zero income tax as did many of the largest U.S. corporations. And no, those defense “cuts” […]

Brilliant, Really.

Apparently the Blue Dog Democrats aren’t finished pissing all over our economy just yet: One of the big victories by tea-party Republicans in the debt-ceiling measure signed into law Tuesday was securing a requirement that Congress vote later this year on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The measure would need a two-thirds vote […]

The Deficit Negotiations: Obama Gives Up the Store & Gets Nothing in Return

President Obama is always one step behind. His inability to frame the debt debate early on has created a situation where he once again will be forced to give up everything, including Democratic party principles, in return for a whole lot of nothing. That Obama and his people don’t “get” this, is alarming given we’ve […]

Barack Obama and His Corporate Friends Toss Elizabeth Warren Under the Bus *updated*

Barack Obama is not a progressive and he never was. During the 2008 election he simply told the liberal base what they wanted to hear. He made Hillary Clinton out to be a Republican-lite candidate but in the end, he’s the one that is a DINO (Democrat in Name Only). He gets frustrated when people […]

Time for Responsible Cuts to Defense Spending

Anyone who is serious about dealing with the deficit but who takes all defense spending off the table, isn’t really serious about deficit reduction. Instead, they are simply interested in using the debt debate as a pretext to cut social programs they never liked to begin with, all the while watching out for their corporate […]

News Round-Up

On this day in history, July 10, 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born France. Some news bits: ~Elizabeth Warren for Senate? ~The GOP has predictably rebuffed the President’s so-called Grand Bargain, which is really a Grand Capitulation to corporate interests on the backs of the middle class, so […]

What We Have Given Up to Fund the War in Afghanistan in 2011

The Iraq War was based on a lie and the war in Afghanistan has become a boondoggle of epic proportion and yet we are still in both countries (and a few new ones!), with no clear endgame in sight. The administration admits that there are around maybe around 50-100 Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and […]