Pelosi vows new “Pecora-style” commission to investigate economic collapse
Speaking Wednesday at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will act next week to begin setting up an investigatory committee to examine and document what went wrong with economic policy and practices.
Putting in a vegetable garden, from the ground up
It is all about the dirt.
Is Obama a Socialist?
Well, no.
But if he was, and a practical sort of Socialist at that, he might be saying things like this and saying them to Bill Moyers:
Hey, Ellen Tauscher; don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!
If the door breaks, nobody out here can afford to get it fixed.
Madam Speaker in her own words
Speaker Pelosi gives an interview. Nice get for Maddow. Read more…
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Content, Effect and Implications
This stimulus act isn’t all it should be, maybe five-eighths of a loaf, but it is better on close examination than first appearance and media reports had suggested.
Tristero wants the Left to attack BlueDogs
A small number of legislators, the BlueDogs, have conspired with the repulsive Republicans to try and destroy the American economy and the economic future of American workers for the sake of political gamesmanship. They must be punished.
A modest proposal: Buy ALL the mortgages, not the toxic derivatives
I am not an economist, but I can do arithmetic.
The enemy within - BlueDogs join with Republicans to enslave the working class and destroy America
The lines of battle over the economic salvation of America and our working class are now crystal clear. It is Republicans and BlueDogs together on one side, acting in furtherance of the same Corporatists who ran public policy under Reagan and the Bushs, versus the rest of us.
Just to be clear on who the "terrorists" are
One of them has come forward to identify himself and his cadre.
Congratulations to those Progressives who helped thwart Caroline Kennedy
Because having her in the Senate would have been truly awful.
Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Joseph Lowery and symbolism at the Inaugural
A lot is being made of the symbolism attached to Rick Warren, in giving the Invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Much less has been said about the symbolic importance of Joseph Lowery giving the Benediction. Read more…
Krugman pens an open letter to Obama
A long piece, in Rolling Stone. I won't try to, ahem, summarize him here, the work is very dense and any attempt to condense it I fear would leave out something important. Go and read, please.
Cats, Knitting, Animal Rights & Exploitation of Women for Political Purposes
All in one post; how could I possibly go wrong? Read more…
Tell Obama you want BushCo held accountable
Some people think this is the key issue before us. Not being one to argue unnecessarily, and always pleased to join a good cause, I suggest all who agree on its importance consider voting for the following question now leading the pack at Obama’s “Change.gov” website:
"Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"
It is Bob Fertik’s question, and he has all the details here. Seems a respectably subversive sort of an effort, organizing to take control of the agenda, so please take a moment straightway before this cycle closes.
America’s Investment Deficit: Putting our money where our mouth is
How Corporatists and Progressives can work together for a better America and a better world.
Dragging Obama and America to the Left, Part 1: Example of useful effort
Most of those I know on the Left are cautiously hopeful about what can be done under the new Democratic majority government.
Blueprint for change from our new Corporatist overlords
No one should be mistaken. There has not been, nor will there ever be, a purely plebeian owned and operated society of significance.
Barack Obama, without illusion
The King is Dead! Long live the King! Read more…
Vote No on Proposition 8
Sarah Palin – the very scary face of the Republican future
While a number of the more cowardly VRWC
mouthpieces in the MSM have abandoned the usual the Republican lockstep approach to candidate support solidarity while they try to climb on the Obama gravy train, others in the Party see this schism as a chance for purification and an opportunity to seize the apron strings of power.
California Proposition 8 strips American citizens of their rights – What are you doing about it?
Proposition 8:
ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME–SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.
Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder Update
Been a while since Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been exercised here at Corrente, and there is good news and bad news – of a sort.
Universal Health Care, China Edition
For those interested in the analytical side of universal health care challenges, a fascinating comprehensive series of articles on the current state and future prospects for health care in China is now available online from The Lancet (simple registration required).




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