Job Killing GOP Governors Have Resumes That Should Disqualify Them From Being President
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 29, 2015 · Last modified November 11, 2015
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Newly-elected Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, perhaps providing further...
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 14, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 13, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of...
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 4, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today will introduce legislation when the new session of Congress convenes this month to...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
Politics / Richest One Percent / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Lobbyists / Politics / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 12, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 27, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 26, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 22, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 21, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 19, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 15, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 3, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 29, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 23, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 6, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 25, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
Politics / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published August 11, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
Paul Ryan’s fellow Republicans are quick to dismiss Elizabeth Warren as too radical, too progressive, too populist. But Ryan is...
Corporations / Environment / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 19, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Every business sector has its friends in Washington. Financial companies — from the biggest megabanks to small payday lenders —...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.