DO YOUR PART   Last week, beltway insiders were shrieking about the Gallup poll’s generic ballot being at -10 for Democrats. Now, the Gallup poll’s generic ballot is tied: Keep up the momentum: Contribute before Friday’s ad buy deadline >> Republicans and beltway pundits may want to hold off on calling the race for the […]

For those liberals with low self esteem or low enthusiasm, you better wake up. Your despondency will cost you and the country 10 years of bad policies on both the federal and state levels. Redistricting in the hands of Republicans will make the corporatists takeover complete, will make the wealth and income transfer engine return […]

How often have you been surfing the web and misspelled a word and happen to come across a gem. Well that has happened many a times.  In fact one can guarantee that it has happened to every surfer on the planet. Sometimes this is how you come across the best little and large gems irrespective […]

I got up this morning an listened to all the news networks and I was about to send off a nasty email to Peter Orszag. After all the headlines I hear was that “Orszag breaks with the President to support temporary extension of Bush’s tax cuts”. the budget busting tax cuts to mostly the wealthy. […]

I believe it is time for Democrats to use the most cynical of moves, the Bush 2004 playbook. Liberals and Democrats must sell fear. The one thing Americans fear more than a bad economy is the fear of something. While not a wholesome strategy, in a frenzy where truthful messaging is overwhelmed by an easily […]

  MILWAUKEE — A combative President Barack Obama has rolled out a long-term jobs program before a cheering Labor Day crowd and coupled it with a campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times. The program will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways. But it’s fate in Congress is in […]

The stimulus can be proven to have worked mathematically. It can be proven mathematically that it was too small. The nay sayers prognostication of the results of the stimulus were wrong. The reality is they know better. The problem is that an economic model where major corporations are not the only ones to dictate economic […]

Dear Friend, Through the stories of these every day Americans it is clear that we need to take the "For Sale" sign off the Capitol Lawn. These interviews with Jim Kalbach, a farmer, Dominica Cibilich, an oyster fisherwoman and Chuck Nelson, a coal miner, show how hard-working people often pay a life-changing price when corporate […]

It was no surprise to us that Fox News left its viewers largely in the dark about the fact that its parent company, News Corp., donated an unprecedented $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association, a campaign operation that aims to elect Republican governors and defeat Democratic candidates. We at Media Matters for America […]

One of my cycling buddies just sent me this. After laughing for ten minutes I simply had to blog it. So lets get along. And do not forget, before you vote in November get my book “As I See It: Class Warfare The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom”.   NEXT SEASON ON DANCING WITH […]