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...
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Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
Koch-Republican Governors Robbing Pensions And Slashing Wages
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Jeb Bush Regurgitates His Political Family’s “Compassionate Conservative” Line
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
Wyoming Republicans Kill Medicaid Expansion
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
Republicans and Wall Street Line Up to Put Taxpayers on the Hook
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Takes From Children And Retirees To Give Tax Cuts To The Wealthy
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
Boehner and McConnell Evasive When Asked About Alternative to Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
GOP Majority Leader Cuts Off Keystone XL Debate So GOP Reps Can Meet With The Kochs
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Koch Party Shill Delivers State of the Union Response
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’s newest ruse to destroy Social Security
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
Top Democrats In Congress To Release Unapologetically Progressive Tax Plan
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Republican Scheme To Cut Social Security For The Disabled
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
House Republicans Pass Bill That Would Take Away Health Insurance From 1 Million Workers
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of...
Democrats Decry Social Security Sneak Attack
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
Bernie Sanders Flexes His Muscles By Introducing Bill To Create 13 Million New Jobs
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today will introduce legislation when the new session of Congress convenes this month to...
How Newt Gingrich’s Language Guru Helped Rebrand the Kochs’ Message
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Government by Wall Street: JPMorgan CEO whipped votes for spending bill
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Corporate America Steps Up for Maine’s Right-Wing Gov. Paul LePage
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Obama should devote final years to changing economic conversation
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Republicans Smear Mary Burke, Sneer at Minimum Wage
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Scott Brown’s Big-Money Sellout
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
Why It’s Time to Update Overtime Pay Rules
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Thinks $7.25 Is a Living Wage
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Koch-affiliated money is pouring into Alaska like never before. Labor unions are going all out to fight back
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
Bernie Sanders: Purchase of Election by Chevron Shows We Have ‘Oligarchy, Not Democracy’
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying “no”
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
“More Money Than I Could Count”: Mitch McConnell’s Very Special Relationship With Lobbyists
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
How corruption became America’s national pastime
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst: An ALEC Shill?
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Mitt Romney’s Latest Excuse for His 47 Percent Remarks Is a Doozy
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
Low-Wage Workers Confront Scott Walker, Accuse Wisconsin Of Breaking The Law
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
A Conservative Disdain for the Unemployed
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
5 Signs the Dark-Money Apocalypse Is Upon Us
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
Arizona Is Becoming The Cayman Islands For Dark Money
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
After 13 Years Of Fighting For Wall Street, Eric Cantor Will Make Millions At An Investment Bank
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
Paul Ryan’s convinced: time to cut taxes on the wealthy
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
Tax Dodger Running for Governor in Illinois
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
Paul Ryan’s Faux Populism Isn’t Going to End Poverty or Reduce Inequality
Paul Ryan’s fellow Republicans are quick to dismiss Elizabeth Warren as too radical, too progressive, too populist. But Ryan is...
Koch-Funded Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Limits Public Chemical Disclosure After Deadly Explosion
Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large...
Meet the Banking Caucus, Wall Street’s secret weapon in Washington
Every business sector has its friends in Washington. Financial companies — from the biggest megabanks to small payday lenders —...
State and Local Efforts to Rein in CEO Pay
Fed up with the do-nothing Congress, people around the country are no longer waiting for Washington to lead on some...
Alan Grayson To Force Republicans On The Record On Minimum Wage
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
Corporate Tax Cheats Still Get Billions In Government Business
Despite supposed bans on companies that move offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes getting federal contracts, more than a dozen...
Who Are The Protectors of Privilege? – A Congressional Report Card
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? Which lawmakers consistently...
