Sins of the Left
In the last year and a half I have been accused of being a liberal, a socialist, even a communist, mostly by people who don’t know what communism is about . These accusations, however, may have had some basis because in looking
Mitt’s Bad Moves
This election is going to be all about the economy. With all the trouble Obama has had trying to pull us out of the pit that Bush/Cheney dumped us in and the Republicans have stonewalled to keep us in, you’d have thought
Mitt’s Bad Moves
This election is going to be all about the economy. With all the trouble Obama has had trying to pull us out of the pit that Bush/Cheney dumped us in and the Republicans have stonewalled to keep us in, you’d have thought
The Logical Way Out
The rallying cry of Romney and the Republicans is, tax us less and we will have more to create jobs. Really? How much more do they need? The fact is that big business is sitting on over 1.6 trillion dollars and no
Bits & Pieces #24
I think the GOP and its backers have to decide if they want to live in a country or in a conglomeration of medieval city-states. What is emerging as a Republican philosophy, (They would deny to the death that they
Money vs Democracy
If it weren’t already blatantly clear, the result of the vote in Wisconsin is a perfect example of why we have to get big money out of the electoral process before it turns our country into a third world dictatorship. There are
Getting Democracy Back
I was reading an article by Matt Taibbi today that dealt with the recovery of some of the millions of underwater mortgage properties that currently exist in our blighted country. His solution was interesting but he kept leavening it with the argument
GOP Lies and the War for Wisconsin
The President stated, a while back, that the private sector was doing okay and that caused the expected eruption of vilification from the right, but if you really look at the statement, it was more accurate than anything the Republican’s have said
Bits & Pieces #23
Quote of the month from Mat Taibi: “Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes out like scaly calculation.” *** People keep asking me why I started writing this blog and
Vulture capital At Its Best
Rick Perry, quite possibly the dumbest man ever to make a serious run at the Republican nomination finally got something right a while back, when he called Mitt Romney’s company, Bain Vulture Capital. This got David Brooks, one of my favorite Republican