Michael Moore put together an excellent list for those of us pushing for the President’s agenda and more. Number 10 may be the most important, and I don’t think it could be said any better. 10. ASK US TO DO SOMETHING. One thing is clear: none of the above is going to happen if you…
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Voting Dade County – Progressive Recommendations
Here are my picks for the Dade county ballot. ***************************************************** Please remember- it seems like a lot, but there are important issues further down the ballot, and they are often decided by a few votes. Please vote all the way down. Use this guide – it’s not as hard to get through as…
Web Quiz Tells You Which Presidential Candidate Best Fits Your Worldview
Take one guy with an abiding interest in politics, another guy with website-building skills and throw in the shared desire to get people more engaged in the political process, and you have the ingredients for an interactive site called ISideWith.com. The site’s purpose is to show you which presidential candidate’s views most align with yours…
Mitt Romneys painfully bad week
Thursday morning, the Obama campaign released a tough ad attacking the record of downsizing and outsourcing at Romney’s old firm, Bain Capital. The Romney campaign reacted with outrage. That same day, it announced a multimillion-dollar purchase of airtime for an ad that bluntly accused President Obama of lying. In support of the ad, Romney’s team…
Birther Secretary of State Bennett Is Romney Campaign Co-Chair
Before you write off Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett as another one of those fringy state officials diving deep into the birther waters of Hawaii, consider this: He is one of the co-chairs of the Romney campaign in Arizona. Then again, that honorary position already comes with a few smudge marks. Another of Romney’s…
Progressive Chellie Pingree Considers Run for Snowe’s Seat
Rep. Chellie Pingree D-Maine is all but certain to make a bid for the Senate in the wake of Sen. Olympia Snowes R retirement announcement, she told The Huffington Post in an interview Wednesday. “I cant think of anything right now thats holding me back,” Pingree said. “I mean, I love being in the House,…
The Scandal of Michigan’s Emergency Managers
Under PA 4, EMs have proven to be a divisive solution. Outsourcing services to private companies and abolishing collective bargaining takes a page right out of the right-wing playbook: a 2011 report titled “101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan,” published by the conservative Mackinac Center for Public Policy, calls for ending “mandatory collective bargaining for government…
Democrats prime recruits to try to take back the House
Just 15 months after taking a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats they need to regain control of the House. Vice President Joe Biden made a bold prediction on Friday, telling House Democrats at their annual retreat…
New Poll Suggests Latino Voters See ‘Hostile’ GOP
The survey of 500 Latino registered voters found that Hispanics continue to lean toward President Obama and other Democratic candidates, and that they feel alienated by Republicans because of their general support for tougher immigration enforcement instead of a path to legal status. Forty-six percent of Latino voters said Republicans “don’t care too much” about…
Architect of Arizonas Anti-Immigration Law May Lose His Seat
Pearce has a considerable financial advantage. According to the ABC affiliate, Pearce “raised an eye-popping $230,000—including donations from more than 40 states—compared to Lewis’ $69,000.” Yet despite that advantage, and the fact that his campaign managed to get a sham candidate, Olivia Cortes, on the ballot, Pearce may still lose. Pearces opponents challenged…
GOP Contenders Hold ‘Raucous’ Debate In Vegas
The reviews are in about last night’s CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas and the consensus seems to be that it was a slugfest in Sin City: — “The near-weekly ritual of Republican presidential debates took a raucous turn Tuesday night as the unsettled field of candidates ganged up on one another…
GOP Presidential Contender Herman Cain Takes Lead In Second Poll
“Fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain now leads the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll,” NBC News deputy political director Mark Murry reports. He says that: “Cain checks in as the first choice of 27…
Talking Points 2012 – The Stimulus
“The argument that the stimulus had zero impact and we shouldn’t have done it is intellectually dishonest or wrong,” he says. “If you throw a trillion dollars at the economy, it has an impact. I would have preferred to do it differently, but they needed to do something.” via Could this time have been different?…
11 of 12 Pennsylvania GOP Members of Congress Rebel Against Gov. Corbett’s Election Rigging Plan
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) proposed rigging the 2012 presidential election for the Republican candidate by effectively giving away as many as a dozen of the blue state’s electoral votes to that candidate. Under Corbett’s scheme, each of the state’s 18 congressional districts will allocate one electoral vote during the…
Mitt Romney’s ‘Buffett Rule’ Problem: His Tax Rate Is 14 Percent
When President Obama released his plan to implement the “Buffett rule” — which would ensure that millionaires can’t pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families — 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney derided it as “class warfare,” saying it is “simply the wrong way to go.” But as Time’s Michael Scherer pointed…
Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation
via Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation – YouTube.