Submitted by Tony Wikrent on Mon, 11/05/2012 - 11:34pm
Cross-posted from Real Economics.
A week ago, Matt Stoller provoked a lot of discussion with his The Progressive Case Against Obama, a masterful accounting of this administration’s dismal policy record “on the grounds of economic and social equity.” Income and wealth inequalities, Stoller points out, have not just continued under Obama, but have actually become some fifty percent worse than during the Bush regime. Read below the fold...
Submitted by MontanaMaven on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 1:36pm
I've never supported Obama and my friends know that. They also know I am out of electoral politics and gone independently left libertarian. Last night I tried to stay out of a political discussion at a small get together of friends. But I did say that I thought it was unacceptable when Obama said he "suspected" that his position on SS was similar to Romney's. Although, I added, it was the most truthful thing he said all night. And then added that IMHO, he looked uncomfortable because he had to pretend he had a different economic philosophy than Romney and that was tiring for him.
Then my friend said, "What does it get you to be a purist?"
I said I'd rather drop the subject especially when labels got attached. Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 2:59pm
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 11:22pm
Submitted by Randall Kohn on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:29am
I actually saw this one on the car directly ahead of me today in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's in Naperville, IL:
So maybe we are as stupid as they think we are...ya think? Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 11:23pm
Submitted by MontanaMaven on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 4:34pm
and not a movement? This is the question that Matthew Noah Smith makes in an essay titled "Living Politically" on the site to which Lambert recently directed us that had the essay "Occupy Philosophy".
He believes that Occupy was an important "event" in that it captured our imaginations more than other important protests such as the one that shut down the state government in Wisconsin. And the "why" of how it did that is important. Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:23pm
Submitted by Randall Kohn on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 12:25am
As announced in THE HILL yesterday:
Obama warns left: You won't like budget
By Alexander Bolton - 01/17/12 05:30 AM ET
Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama’s budget proposal.
Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, sought in meetings last week to lift the left’s gloom about Washington’s crackdown on spending by promising that the president this year will focus on job creation rather than deficit cutting.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 12:26am
This, after Darth Obama froze wages for federal employees; no collective bargaining allowed.
AFSCME votes to endorse Obama for reelection
“Obama’s been criticized for not doing enough for his base,” Larry Scanlon, AFSCME’s political director, said in an interview. “So you always worry about the mood of your membership. But the depth of support in the room today for Obama surprised even me.”
Tuesday’s vote by the union board was unanimous.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 1:16pm
Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits (AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America's unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent - a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.
...
Read below the fold...
Submitted by Randall Kohn on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:26pm
The question of how (or whether) to respond electorally to the Obamacon has been answered many ways, but none better than the one I encountered today in FDL's special section on marijuana legalization, JUST SAY NOW .COM. Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:44am
Whenever I hear our thugs in higher office say "infrastructure program," I think complicated privatization schemes, outrageous no-bid contracts, and other creative ways to sodomize the American purse.
One such example is the sewer project that has completely ruined Jefferson County, Alabama.
And now, The Exiled has uncovered the latest attempt to steal the most precious resource to all of us: water.
WATER WARS: GOV. JERRY BROWN’S PET PUBLIC-TO-PRIVATE WEALTH TRANSFER PROJECT IS A GO
By Yasha Levine
Read below the fold...
Submitted by jest on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:57pm
There’s only one electable Republican in the 2012 race. Unfortunately, he’s running as a Democrat.
© wigwam
Gotta love those Firebaggers. Read below the fold...
Submitted by coyotecreek on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:58pm
Oakland and Albany - worlds apart geographically and in terms of their treatment of The Occupation Movement.
Lambert (and Coyote Creek) have posted two petitions on Sign-On.com to let NY Governor Andrew Coumo (a Democrat!) and Albany (NY) Mayor Jerry Jennings know that Albany County DA, P.David Soares made a sane, civil and morally correct decision when he went against their explicit orders and decided not to prosecute Occupy Albany protestors.
Please go to these two petition links (one for Cuomo and the other for Jennings) and sign each petition. WE NEED TO LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT, IN THE UNITED STATES, THERE IS A WAY TO REACT TO A LOCAL OCCUPATION WITHOUT SHOOTING RUBBER BULLETS AT U.S. CITIZENS.
Thank DA Soares for his brave - and morally correct - actions. Read below the fold...
Pages
