Posts tagged democratic
Peter Daou: Last Chance, Mr. President, to Go Big and Go Left
Jun 14th
A year ago, in the midst of the explosive health care debate, I argued that health care reform wouldn’t be President Obama’s defining issue: The New York Times blares: In Health Care Fight, Defining Moment Nears for President .
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Loading ...Randy Shaw: New Outrage Exposes Obama’s Failure To Help Unions
Jun 14th
On June 11, St. Joseph’s Health Systems (SJHS) did something that employers have long done but which Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to stop: it filed a frivolous NLRB appeal to delay unionization for workers who won an election. In this case, SJHS is denying unionization to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital workers, who chose the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in the largest successful hospital election of 2009.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christine Pelosi: What’s at Stake in the Golden State? Corporate Cash vs. Progressive Populism
Jun 13th
California voters face a clash between corporate cash vs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Sex and Scandal Plagued Democrats and Republicans should be the Last to Finger Point Alvin Greene
Jun 12th
No sooner did unemployed army veteran Alvin Greene win the South Carolina Senate Democratic primary, and the report surfaced that he had a felony obscenity charge against him, the predictable happened. State Democrats screamed for him to drop out of the race.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Frank Dwyer: Colossal Combinations: An Urgent Call for Progressive Action
Jun 12th
Obama and his minions mocked the union men and women who supported Bill Halter in his campaign to retire Blanche Lincoln. Obama supported Lincoln.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Daniel Ellsberg: Wikileaks Founder ‘Would Do Well To Keep His Whereabouts Unknown’ (VIDEO)
Jun 12th
Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, castigated President Obama Friday for the government’s reported “hunting” of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange , and the administration’s strident anti-whistleblower policy more generally. In light of Obama’s apparent crusade against those who reveal government corruption and wrongdoing, Ellsberg told Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC, Assange ought to keep his head down
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Eric Balderas, Harvard Student Brought To U.S. From Mexico At Age 4, May Be Deported
Jun 12th
BOSTON — An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said Friday. Eric Balderas, 19, who just completed his first year at Harvard, said he was detained Monday by immigration authorities when he tried to board a plane from his hometown of San Antonio to Boston using a consulate card from Mexico and his student ID
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [127] — Letting A Crisis Go To Waste
Jun 12th
President Barack Obama’s administration was supposed to follow a basic premise: never let a crisis go to waste. That was according to one of his own advisors, shortly after Obama took office.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven Weber: The Zeal Thing
Jun 11th
If the right wing has succeeded in doing anything (as certainly many of its loudly brayed sentiments have proved as revolting as they are socially untenable) it is the destruction of the office of President of the Unites States as a potent leader. So degraded has the office become through the right wing’s subversion, that it, along with most of the other aspects of a functioning federal government, cannot be mentioned without an attendant sneer. Carny trash invoke more sympathetic responses.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Winship: The Supreme Court Says No to the People – Again
Jun 11th
At a dinner party, an ever-so-proper aristocrat who had been at the British evacuation of Dunkirk, sixty years ago, remained tightlipped despite intense questioning from the other guests about what he had seen there.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nan Aron: Who’s Activist Now? The Roberts Court Bends Over Backwards For Its Corporate Friends
Jun 11th
The sky is falling! A Democratic president is making judicial appointments and conservative Chicken Littles are raising the usual ruckus about the threat to our way of life from judicial appointees supposedly harboring a liberal political bias or wanting to impose some kind of radical constitution-twisting personal agenda through their jurisprudence. The conservative battle cry is the same as always: beware judicial activism! Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, as predictable as the tides in Mobile Bay, has already trotted the old talking-points warhorse out of the Republican barn, fretting about Kagan’s “willingness to inject her views into the court room.” ” The Roberts Court’s Record of Overreaching ,” a new report released by Alliance for Justice , shows that the current Supreme Court, led by the five conservatives (but sometimes joined by others), is ready, willing, and able to twist the law to protect powerful interests at the expense of everyday Americans. We found some of the most egregious examples of overreach – dare I say, “judicial activism” – in modern history
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Creamer: Big Banks Make Desperate Last Ditch Effort to Weaken Wall Street Reform
Jun 11th
Everyday Americans have made big progress advancing legislation to rein in the recklessness of the big Wall Street Banks that led to the economic collapse and cost eight million Americans their jobs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bob Burnett: Barack Obama: The Birth and Death of Cool
Jun 11th
I’m part of an American demographic that values cool , the mystical self-confidence that sends the message “I have it handled.” Since he burst upon the national political scene in 2004, Barack Obama has seemed the epitome of cool. But after the BP gulf oil disaster, pundits accused Obama of being “too cool.” In a recent article, MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman asked, “Is Obama’s ‘cool’ too cold for the ravaged gulf?” and concluded, “Technocratic, lawyerly, detail-oriented, bureaucratic: each of these qualities has its value
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharron Angle: Harry Reid Is A ‘Whack Job’ And ‘We’ve Got To Fire Him’
Jun 11th
Fresh off her victory in Nevada’s Republican Senate primary, Sharron Angle took aim at her opponent, Senate Majority Harry Reid. In Angle’s first post-primary interview with KXNT’s Alan Stock, the Tea Party-backed candidate blasted Reid as a “whack job candidate,” before going on to explain, “That’s why we’ve got to fire him.” Here’s the exchange that went down between Angle and the conservative talk radio host earlier this week: “You’ve been called a ‘niche candidate.’ A quote, ‘whack job.’ What are they talking about?” [Stock asked]. “Well, a whack job candidate is Harry Reid.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Clinton To Democratic Incumbents: ‘Never Give Up’
Jun 11th
LAS VEGAS — Bill Clinton says Democratic incumbents can’t run away from their records, so they might as well embrace them. “Tell your story,” the former president advised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other embattled Democrats
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This Is What Senate Dithering Looks Like
Jun 11th
The Senate is currently muddling through the process of amending and approving urgent legislation to reauthorize several domestic aid programs — including extended unemployment benefits — that expired on June 1 after the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess. The Senate will not get the legislation done until next week at the earliest. To the hundreds of thousands of people who are missing unemployment checks , the Senate’s slowness can be maddening
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