It isn’t unusual that the Republican party is anti-union. It isn’t even unusual that the Republican National Committee sent to its base a loaded questionnaire with blatantly leading and highly biased questions. But it is unusual that the party that claims to ally itself with homeland security has not-so-subtly attacked the firefighters and police who [...]
If you support a healthcare bill with a public option in it, chances are many single-payer advocates don’t trust you. If you supported that same bill in exactly the same way and also advocated leaving in it the language that allows states to create single-payer, those same missing passionate advocates might not line up perfectly [...]
Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion, never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the late 18th century was, “Let them eat cake.” But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it. At a public meeting, one of Grassley’s constituents asked him, “Why is your insurance so much cheaper [...]
For several months now, Republicans have been seeking to find a way to demonize the Obama administration, experimenting with the words “socialist” and “fascist” to see which one seems more powerful at evoking fear. “Fascist” suggests a one-party government controlled by a small elite, often with close ties to specific corporations. Fascism is often characterized [...]
In what many Congress-watchers see as Washington’s version of Kabuki Theater, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today began its hearings on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Latina associate justice of the Supreme Court and only the third woman ever to be nominated to the nation’s highest court. In a packed [...]
