'They should have to defend that unfairness ...'
Out of many great moments, from one great speech, this one spoke most to me ...Barack Obama:“Anybody who says we can’t change the tax code to correct that, anyone who has signed some pledge to protect...
View ArticleCongressional Insider spills the beans on the GOP's efforts to dissuade Low...
Several dailykos writers have already written about this GOP whistle-blower, but I saw a frame here, which these others did not focus on -- so here goes. If you've already had your fill of this...
View ArticleAmerican Jobs Act killed by House Republicans
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today said the U.S. House of Representatives will all be voting “NO” on President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act, even thought they know that letting our...
View ArticleDec 1941 and the GOP
While reading December 1941; 31 days that changed America and saved the World by Craig Shirley, I got to this quote which sounds like it came right out of a diary here on Daily Kos, but was made by...
View ArticleKabuki Theater
Sometimes called the Theater of the Absurd, Kabuki Theater seems to be all the rage in modeling the stagecraft that passes for governing. Whereas in reality, so much of the Kabuki is simply a...
View ArticleVoting -- a Nice Perk, if you can get it
Start watching for their stories -- because there will soon be a tidal wave of them. Stories like these -- of American Citizens being denied their most basic Constitutional right ...Voter ID laws...
View ArticlePhoto Id Laws targets a problem, that barely even exists
That boogie-man problem: Voter Fraud. Here are some essential Voter Fraud Stats from a Federal Study, that the GOP rather you NOT know about:STUDY: Feds Prosecuted Only 38 Cases Of Voter Fraud Between...
View Articlecan i vote dot org ?
It used to be a given, a basic right of citizenship. These days when you ask that question: Can I Vote? the answer may be:It Depends.Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won't Vote by Corey Dade, NPR.org...
View ArticleWho cares what this Grandma Thinks ...?
Who cares what this Grandma thinks ...? Answer: We all should ...link to videorough transcript:Mary Lou Hill is 94 years old. She was born before women got the right to vote and she's been voting...
View ArticleGot Food Stamps? -- well forget about trying to Vote then
Or so this conservative author is proposing with his latest trial balloon, linking the two activities: the Right to Voting and receiving Government assistance.Food stamp 'reform' by Steve Benen,...
View Article18% of Seniors do not have the required Photo ID
And so it begins ...Former Congressman Lincoln Davis Turned Away from VotingHumphrey on the Hill, knoxnews.com -- March 6, 2012Former Congressman Lincoln Davis says he was denied the right to vote...
View ArticleIt's A Fact - Right-Wingers Have No Compassion!
We always knew this but now we know why.The below article is the BEST explanation I have come upon so far that explains why the GOP/TP seems to exhibit such hate toward everything and everybody that...
View ArticleThe GOP's "Accomplishment" List
See if you can detect the pattern? (The one that the Corporate News Media apparently can't.)Senate Republicans block pay equity billby Ted Barrett, CNN -- June 05, 2012[...] An election-year Democratic...
View ArticleThe Three R's
Nope, it's not Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic. Keep reading ...Mitch McConnell Demonstrates the "Repeal and Replace" Tap Danceby Kevin Drum, motherjones.com -- Jul 2, 2012[...] WALLACE: One of the...
View ArticleNevermind that Solar Subsidies are totally eclipsed by Oil Subsidies
Solar Companies to Tap U.S. Funds Halted Since Solyndraby Christopher Martin and Justin Doom, Bloomberg News -- July 11, 2012[...]New CriticismsThe Energy Department program was designed to support...
View ArticleAre you ready to Vote -- legally speaking?
It used to be a given, a basic right of citizenship. These days when you ask that question: Am I Ready to Vote? the answer may be:It Depends.Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won't Vote by Corey Dade,...
View ArticleLCV starts campaign against the 'Flat Earth Five'
The League of Conservation Voters has said enough is enough. They are putting up some serious money to vote out the worse of Climate Change Deniers in Congress -- dubbing them as the 'Flat Earth...
View Article"Runways are NOT supposed to be Gooey."
Ezra for Rachel, last night:"Chocolate chip cookies are supposed to be gooey -- Runways are NOT supposed to be gooey."Also scary: Roads that have buckled in the summer's record heat. It is a...
View ArticlePA Voter Law directs voters to ill-equiped PennDot centers
Pennsylvania's readiness to implement voter ID law questionedby Clara Ritger, Inquirer Staff Writer, philly.com -- Jul 28, 2012Concerns were raised Friday in Commonwealth Court that voters, poll...
View ArticleRegistration, Identification, Participation, and YOUR Vote
It used to be a given, a basic right of citizenship. These days when you ask the question:Am I ready and able to Vote? The answer may be:It Depends. Depends on where you live.Why New Photo ID Laws...
View ArticleIt was just a year ago, when Paul Ryan celebrated his Grand Fiscal...
Remember when the USA had its sterling Credit Rating DOWNGRADED -- for the first time in history -- because the $4T cost-cutting 'Grand Bargain' fell through?Remember when Tea Party Republicans, led...
View ArticleIs Paul Ryan doing the Koch Brothers' Bidding?
Well there's Ryan's slam of Solar R&D as "a Fad," on 60 Minutes last night ...On 60 Minutes Schieffer Presses Romney and Ryanwith False Narrative Wealthy Pay Low Tax Rateby Media Research Center,...
View Article"Don't Blame my Brother!"
Jeb Bush is back.And he's leading the charge with the Republicans latest talking point ...Jeb Bush to Obama: Stop blaming my brotherby David Jackson, USA TODAY -- Aug 26, 2012TAMPA -- Jeb Bush says...
View ArticleBlocked.
Republican Senators Blocks Homeless Veterans Billlink to videoUploaded by SenateDemocrats on Jun 29, 2010Senator Patty Murray today called up a homeless women veterans bill on the Senate floor but it...
View ArticleBlocked: II
Republican Filibuster Of Bill To Bring Jobs Home Must Endlink to videoUploaded by SenateDemocrats on Jun 18, 2010Democratic Senators Debbie Stabenow (MI), Dick Durbin (IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI),...
View ArticleThey Blocked that!
When it comes to the GOP -- they didn't Build that.Most times They Blocked that ...
View ArticleSpeaking of "Empty Chairs"
Thanks to GOP and their new spokesman, the social media world is all abuzz with that amazing Republican stage-craft ...Where do these paragons of no ideas -- get their no ideas from?Just ask the chair...
View ArticleSometimes a Chair is just a Chair
Sometimes a Chair is just a Chair;And sometimes a Chair is a symbol of something, that is too often, missing ... as in these GOP Chairs that are all strangely vacant:-------------------------
View ArticleStanding in the way of Progress
Imagine what kind of country we could build, if we actually elected people who cared about governing ...Where the Business of the American People actually got done.Well there are just a few things...
View ArticleWhy is the Republican Record-Breaking use of the Filibuster -- Not a topic of...
It bothers me when I see editorials like this -- that blame "both sides" of Congress equally.For their ritual inaction. For not doing their jobs. For hurting average Americans.Do-nothing Congress...
View ArticleBoxer's Bill would Unblock Voting Lines -- But will it be Blocked?
Sometimes common sense rises to the fore, from the chambers of the Congress.It's exceedingly uncommon though, that the entire Congress actually rises, to meet the call ...Boxer Introduces Bill to Help...
View ArticleWhat's Republican's Plan D -- Dump Boehner?
The "kinder and gentler" plan for the upper crust -- Republican's Plan B -- has just "crashed and burned" ...What do they have in mind for an encore -- trash the Country's Credit Rating -- AGAIN. I...
View ArticleWe have a unique opportunity -- to Un-Block That!
When it comes to the progress ...When it comes to the GOP -- They didn't Build that.They Blocked that! If Democrats want it -- The GOP wants to bury it. As a matter of "principle." Without a Debate...
View ArticleCongress is less popular than Head Lice
No wonder they stonewall, and throw tantrums, and play games with people's lives-- it's because they are so dang popular ...Congress less popular than cockroaches, traffic jamsPublic Policy Polling --...
View ArticleThis is what a Government Hostage-taker looks like ...
Meet Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Rep Blackburn: "Partial Government shutdown may be necessary." Rep Blackburn: "Kicking the can down the road has come to a stop. We got the can. It's...
View ArticleHarry Reid may be about to fold on filibuster reform
Why in the world does Harry Reid care what McConnell wants? Please someone ask him.Harry Reid and Filibuster ReformThe Ed Show -- 01/18/2013link to videoEd Schultz: "How many landslides do we have to...
View ArticleGreatest Deliberative Body in the World: Declares Checkmate! on itself
Remember this little doozy?Just watch the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, while playing his standard game of Senate Cloture Chess, actually get out-maneuvered, and has to actually filibuster...
View ArticleRepublican Party's Catch-22
Republicans are in a bind.Do they change with the times, with the American people; or do they hang onto the past, and their anti-government rhetoric? Decisions, decisions. Choose A, and they look...
View ArticleSenator, Why is the Senate broken?
The U.S. Senate Is Broken -- But We Can Fix ItFixTheSenateNow.orglinkPssst Senators...We Can Help You Be More Popular Than Dental Surgery!link60 Seconds: Secret Senator Interview About Our Broken...
View ArticleThe Stupid Party is looking for an Image Makeover
When the conservative Washington Times has only harsh things to say about the Republican Party, you know they are in trouble.The demise of the Republican brandby Timothy Zlatich, washingtontimes.com...
View ArticleDon't ask. Don't task. Don't tax.
Perhaps that's the problem. The Cons, people stuck in an antagonistic stance, can't differentiate between words that sound so much alike. Or, they don't want to be asked, tasked or taxed because they...
View ArticleThe Dictatorship of No
Congress has got very good at eliminating options and generating demands so the bureaucracy has only one way to satisfy the requirements of the law. It's the same strategy that drafts the requirements...
View ArticleClimate Change; A Few Republicans Take Responsibility
Former Treasury Secretary and current Republican Henry "Hank" Paulson made news last month when he wrote an op-ed for the New York Times acknowledging the seriousness of the threat that global warming...
View ArticleGOP Wins By Behaving Like A Toddler (No! No! No!)
(Here's a song from over a year ago, but it is even more relevant today, sadly enough!)
View ArticleA Republican Candidate Admits What We Already Knew
Today, I attended a town hall meeting for John Kasich. I have to admit that, compared to other Republican candidates, Kasich seemed refreshingly honest and realistic. I wanted to ask him about his...
View ArticleFinality of NO!
The “Party of No” has reached its finality. Single mindedness has always been a trait for those weak of thought and leadership. This concept was not born overnight … no, it has a much deeper root than...
View Article"New Party of No" : Is This The New Identity The Democratic Party Should...
Last weekend the NYT had a very interesting and , in my opinion, provocative piece regarding the state of the Dem Party in a Trump led republican dominated government.On a the day after the election...
View ArticleThe Party of the Reasoned No
So the pundits are debating whether the Democratic Party is becoming the new Party of No. The Democrats have to energize the base, the pundits say. Turnabout is fair play, they add. And they lament the...
View ArticleThe Wages of Undoing Roe
“Be careful what you wish for.”— Modern political proverb.An old joke about a successful family of lawyers goes like this: One day, the hotshot and headstrong son arrives home triumphant. “Father,...
View ArticleNo Nothing
The idea behind Democrats campaigning on the issue of freedom is, nearly, perfect.I hate to say it, though, but it is a little too complicated. It requires paragraphs, not sound bites.Here are a few...
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