Sep 30, 2011: Millionaires Revolt!
Millionaires Want To Pay Their Fair Share It’s not just the whopping 73 percent of Americans — including 66 percent of Republicans — who agree that it’s unfair for middle class Americans to pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires. Millionaires themselves are clamoring for their taxes to be raised. Here’s the rundown [...]
Sep 29, 2011: Scenes From The Streets
Mad As Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore Whether it’s the protesters occupying Wall Street or hundreds of smaller actions in cities across the country, there is a growing movement demanding that banks (and millionaire bankers) pay their fair share, that we rebuild the middle class and the American Dream, and that we [...]
Sep 28, 2011: Romney & Perry Doth Protest Too Much
They Can Run, But They Can’t Hide Their Stimulus-Loving Pasts Just as we were crawling out of bed this morning, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign eagerly blasted out a new video attacking President Obama on the stimulus. Shortly thereafter, however, Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry became engaged in a nasty fight over who [...]
Sep 27, 2011: Eric Cantor, This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record
What Does the GOP Have Against American Jobs, Kids? President Obama is in Colorado today touting his plans to put Americans back to work modernizing our aging schools and to make sure there are plenty of teachers to fill those schools. Here’s the rundown of the president’s plan and why Republican opposition to it is [...]
Sep 26, 2011: The Need For Gender Equality In Television
The fall television season’s a great time for fresh starts — to welcome back favorite television shows and hope they’ll continue their momentum, or find great new shows. This autumn’s been heralded as a breakthrough for women on television, particularly women in comedy, following the massive and somewhat unexpected box office success of the female-led [...]
Sep 23, 2011: New-Old GOP Plan: Kill Jobs, Stiff Disaster Victims
GOP Hat Trick: Kill Jobs, Stiff Disaster Victims, & Shut Down the Government On Wednesday, we reported on how Tea Party extremists within the House GOP caucus derailed the GOP leadership’s job-killing plan to fund disaster recovery efforts and keep the government running past Sept. 30 because it didn’t cut spending enough. Democrats, of course, also [...]
Sep 22, 2011: GOP Fight Night In Florida
Questions for the GOP Presidential Candidates The Republican presidential contenders are meeting in Orlando, Florida this evening for their third debate of the month. Here are the questions we’d like to see asked and answered tonight. Social Security: There are 3,994,280 Floridians between the ages of 40 and 54. They’ve been paying into Social Security [...]
Sep 21, 2011: Revolt! GOP Plan To Kill Jobs Defeated
GOP Efforts to Satisfy Tea Party Extremists Threaten Jobs, Disaster Aid We warned you last week that Republicans and their job-killing agenda were back with a vengeance. Today, House Republicans put a measure up for a vote that would’ve threatened tens of thousands of American jobs. However, in a hugely embarrassing loss for Speaker [...]
Sep 20, 2011: What You Need To Know About Warren Buffett’s Secretary
Should the Middle Class Pay a Higher Tax Rate Than Billionaires? President Obama Says No. In a much-publicized op-ed in the New York Times last month entitled “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” billionaire investor Warren Buffett noted that because of the so-called “hedge fund handout” he and other super-rich individuals who “make money with money” pay [...]
Sep 19, 2011: What If The Tea Party Wins?
This weekend, the Constitution celebrated its 224th birthday. Yet, despite the fact that our founding document has served America well for more than two centuries, the Tea Party now wants to cast its principles aside and replace them with a radical anti-government manifesto. Despite the fact that the Constitution has been amended many times to [...]
