From the daily archives: Thursday, March 3, 2011

Republicans Next Attack on the Middle Class: Pay Wall Street First If Debt Ceiling Not Raised

By Paul On March 3, 2011  

Screwing the middle class has become a Republican badge of honor. Republicans are tripping over themselves trying to find more creative ways to do it. The low-hanging fruit of suppressing their wages, shipping their jobs overseas, destroying their net worth, cheerleading them into crippling debt, and busting their private sector unions is done. The attack [...]

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Don’t Complain About “The” Democrats

By Dave Johnson On March 3, 2011  

Because there are Democrats like this. Here is video of Rep. George Miller talking about workers and the right to organize.

SOME Democrats are bad Democrats, others are GREAT!

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With All Eyes on the States, GOP Quietly Pushes Ridiculous Anti-Labor Bill Through Congress

By Joshua Holland On March 3, 2011  

While we’ve seen unprecedented attention on workers’ struggles in Wisconsin, Ohio and other state capitols, the GOP is pushing a bill through Congress that would make organizing transportation workers all-but-impossible. It was sponsored by House Transportation Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) who, as you might expect, is “a major recipient of campaign contributions from the airline [...]

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Right-Wing Lies About “Union Thugs” Becoming Downright Comical

By Joshua Holland On March 3, 2011  

It’s a tough job to portray pro-union demonstrators as “thugs” when the local police department is busy issuing press releases thanking them for conducting themselves “ with great decorum and civility.”

But the Right has never been known to let reality get in the way of a good story, and the intellectual gymnastics they’re performing [...]

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The bully boys of Wisconsin

By Susan Madrak On March 3, 2011  

Here’s the thing we all know: Right-wing Republicans don’t usually win if they’re honest about what they want to do. So in order to be successful, they have to lie, coerce, threaten, manipulate and cheat their way to victory. They can’t lead on the basis of their policies, because so few people [...]

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The GOP’s one-trick ponies

By Susan Madrak On March 3, 2011  

Not that the truth has much to do with anything these days, but E.J. Dionne nails it: It’s a lot easier to keep cutting than it is to come up with real solutions. Of course, the current austerity trend has much more to do with the long-term political interests of the [...]

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Leveraging Its Latest Nuclear Setback to Further Tighten the Screws on Iran

By Russ Wellen On March 3, 2011  

The Times’s Broad and Sanger, along with ISIS’s Albright, stoke the fires of Iran alarmism anew. Like “wipe Israel off the map,” “another Chernobyl” is pushing buttons for an attack on Iran.

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