Working Life

* John Boehner looks like a naughty frat boy showing off in front of "bro’s" when he shouts "Hell’s no" * Less than ten votes btwn civilization & Nazi Communist Black Panther Muslim Socialist government takeover! * "No You Can’t" should be GOP slogan * "It is the responsibility of this house 2 defend these […]

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   My colleague David Sirota writes in his column about Democrats: First, their leaders campaign on pledges to create a government insurer (a "public option") that will compete with private health corporations. Once elected, though, Democrats propose simply subsidizing those corporations, which are (not coincidentally) filling Democratic coffers. Justifying the reversal, Democrats claim the subsidies […]

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   Lesson from last night: if we had held accountable the Democrats who for the past 25 years did not act like Democrats–meaning, those people who were willing to engage in legalized corruption by pocketing corporate campaign cash, those people who voted for NAFTA and so-called "free trade" and those people who lost their voices […]

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The Republican world view of "national security" has been laid bare–ideology is more important than the security of the people. In my view, the fallout from the airplane terror plot makes this abundantly clear.   I start from my own touchstones about the definition of "national security": it is a measure of how the people […]

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   There is a poll out today that shows the fortune of the Democratic Party sliding dramatically. I am not a big believer that polls tell you much beyond a monetary snapshot–and we know how quickly those polls can change. But, this was the more interesting–and worrisome, from the party’s point of view: Julie Edwards, […]

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   This was from a few days ago in Congress Daily (it’s a subscription only publication): The fallout from a decision by Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., to take his name off of a union-backed trade bill continues to roil his 2010 Senate bid. Meek on Oct. 15 signed on as a co-sponsor to legislation sponsored […]

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   This guy–Allan H. Meltzer, a political economist at Carnegie Mellon University–is seriously delusional: Mr. Meltzer says the risk lies not in pulling back too soon but dithering too long. And he would scrap the stimulus program immediately and replace it with cuts in marginal tax rates for individuals and businesses. "It’s certainly not a […]

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   I’ve always wanted to go out and do a week-long series on how the labor movement built the middle-class in Las Vegas–you know, the labor movement that part of the Democratic Party just sold out by eviscerating the Employee Free Choice Act. So, it was with a bit of trepidation that I began reading […]

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   i’ve never liked the nonsense about the importance of the political "center". As I see it, that has basically been a cop-out–a fear of confronting the people who want to continue to rip-off the workers of the country by promoting the notion that the "center" requires that taxes be low (meaning, taxes on the […]

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  Let’s deal with some facts. The richest one percent of Americans are paying taxes that are too low–and Republicans are pushing budget proposals that would shovel even more money into the hands of the wealthiest Americans. Here are the facts.   Citizens for Tax Justice has released a series of studies in the past […]

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