"Words that make actions speak louder."
Conservative corporate executives — many of whom are raking in profits while refusing to create jobs — continue to complain that President Obama’s agenda is blame for the weak economy because it has created too much
At the Netroots Nation convention today in Las Vegas, Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked about an upcoming Congressional initiative to help restore American manufacturing. The initiative, called “Making It In America” will include a series of bills to be introduced after the summer recess. A few days ago Politico wrote about the upcoming initiative, Democrats are […]
At Netroots Nation today, Van Jones sought to rally attendees after the Senate leadership put plans for a climate protection bill on the back burner: “This thing is not over.” He’s right, for one very simple reason. It is against the law under the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court has ruled, for the Environmental […]
The “teachable moment” cliché may be overused, as Jason Linkins observed the other day, but what the White House really needed this week was a learnable moment. The Administration and other leading Democrats had an opportunity this week to understand the nature of the opposition they face. The President’s remarks about Shirley Sherrod’s firing suggest […]
This week’s big story is that a faker scammed the media, trashing an innocent USDA employee’s career in order to push a false right-wing narrative. But another scam’s underway too, and it’s targeting Social Security and other entitlement programs. As Republicans (and at least one Democrat) pushed budget-busting tax cuts, the “bipartisan” leaders of the […]
"It hurts me that they didn’t even try to attempt to see what is happening here, they didn’t care." Shirley Sherrod – on her forced resignation from the USDA within hours airing of a heavily edited video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event by right wing media, in an attempt to portray her and […]
Ezra Klein needs to stop repeating bank lobby smears against Elizabeth Warren. He’s sympathetic to the charge that Warren is “too dismissive of the benefits of financial innovation,” because, well, I don’t know why. It’s a baseless allegation being made by Warren’s opponents without any evidence whatsoever. It relies on the stock bank lobby response […]
In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull’s-eye as a target for cuts. Perpetually tanned Republican House Minority leader John Boehner, called for hiking the retirement age to 70. The Democratic House Majority Leader, wrong-way Steny Hoyer, argued for hiking it to 69. Various proposals float to change the […]
The right-wing smear machine that cost an exemplary Agriculture Department official her job should be denounced for what it is: a high-tech, low-rent McCarthyism that launches search-and-destroy missions with no purpose but poisonous partisanship. That the Obama administration keeps retreating whenever this hit squad starts strafing someone — firing Van Jones; disassociating itself from ACORN […]
Today, President Barack Obama will sign into law the first serious effort to regulate Wall Street in decades. The bill has much to be said for it, but the unfortunate truth is that it ducks several of the most critical reforms needed to protect our economy from banker abuse. As regulators work to implement the […]