Incoming Governor advised by Tea Party crackpots
The new Governor of Maine is a fellow named Paul LePage who got some notoriety during the campaign for saying he'd tell Obama to "Go to Hell," lying about his family finances, and telling lies and...
View ArticleSenate 2012: Going Back on the Offensive, Part 1
I'm not interested in discussing a wipeout in 2012. Oh, I'm sure there's room for others to talk -- about Virginia, Montana, North Dakota, what have you. 2006 was a great cycle for us, which means 2012...
View ArticleOopsie daisy! Sorry Ohio & Wisconsin
Who said elections don't have consequences?! In Ohio and Wisconsin, two new Republican governors have put down their foot on using the government's money for high speed rail. Jer45's diary on the...
View ArticleDear Mr. President
In these tough economic times, billionaires should be giving to charity, not taking it from the government.
View ArticleNo Deal, Mr. President
It’s simple: The deal President Obama struck with Senate Republicans on taxes gives up too much to the super-wealthy without getting enough for the middle class.  The Republican strategy of...
View ArticleOhio Election Disaster Could Be Good News For U.S.
I’ve been coming here less in recent weeks because, quite frankly, the news depresses me. And the news is ghastly for us here in Ohio. We lost every single statewide office; we lost control of the one...
View ArticleShould St. Louis get the 2012 DNC meeting?
We already know where the GOP's meeting in 2012-- Tampa, FL. Will St. Louis get the 2012 over Charlotte? It appears that Cleveland, OH, and Minneapolis, MN (who held the 2008 RNC meeting, in which the...
View ArticleIowa justices who voted for gay marriage threatened with impeachment
It hasn't taken long for the religious right to call favors to several state legislative chambers now under Republican control. Â Back in November, plans were already underway to put a gay-marriage ban...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 283
Two weeks ago I wrote about how Germany, by rejecting right wing trickle down policies and using working-class based government aid kept its people working during the Great Bush Recession and so is...
View ArticleAttack on Public Workers Unions starts in Ohio
No one listened to me. I told them, elect John Kasich and the Republicans in Ohio and it will end very badly for you. It was just announced that Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, plans on introducing a...
View Article308,745,538
That's how many of us there are, according to the 2010 United States Census. U.S. Census Director Robert Groves announced the results this morning at the National Press Club. The South was the region...
View Article308,745,538
That's how many of us there are, according to the 2010 United States Census. U.S. Census Director Robert Groves announced the results this morning at the National Press Club. The South was the region...
View ArticleBig Oil Money Working to Rewrite History of Gulf Oil Disaster
Big polluters have spent years funding think tanks to give a veneer of credibility to their push for profit. I mean, if the CEO of Exxon Mobil comes out and says Congress should roll back the Clean Air...
View ArticleNuclear Seniority in Iowa
When Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley cast his "NO" vote on the New START Treaty on Wednesday, many Iowans were disappointed, but not surprised. As number nine on the Senate seniority roster during the...
View ArticleTeabagger ME-Gov hires daughter, has her live in Gov Mansion
Cross posted at Dirigo Blue People before politics. That has been the motto of the Maine Tea Party Republican Gov-Elect Paul LePage's transition team. It's just that no one asked, "Which people?" The...
View ArticleTea Party Gov To Be Hires Inexperienced Daughter
Posted by Bruce Bourgoine who blogs at Dirigo Blue and Kennebec Blues.
View ArticleThe Fight For Marriage Equality: 2010 in Review.
The biggest news of the year? The fight in Congress and the ultimate vote in the Senate to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. True, it's only peripherally related to marriage equality, but it makes the...
View ArticleMore on the House rules
I saw a few more items in the proposed House rules that I thought are interesting:
View ArticleHere we go again, New Hampshire whining about primary calendar
The New Hampshire/Iowa monopoly at the top of the nomination calendar needs to be put down. Could those states be any more obnoxious? Last summer, local Democratic leaders took heat for voting in...
View ArticleI've been denied a press pass from teabagger ME-Gov-Elect
Cross posted at Dirigo Blue I received the press release from the office of Maine Gov-Elect Paul LePage, titled Media Coverage for Inauguration of Governor Paul LePage Media Registration, Times, Places...
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