For the past several weeks, one of my favorite people, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has been publicly floating the idea that, if no other strong progressives, like Elizabeth Warren, come forward to announce a run for the presidency in 2016, he’d consider doing it himself. Someone, according to Sanders, needs to address the collapse of […]
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Everything is pointing toward a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign… And only Elizabeth Warren can stop it
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Bernie Sanders, campaign finance reform, carbon tax, Citizens United, cooperatives, Edward Snowden, Elizabeth Warren, energy efficiency, financial reform, global climate change, Global Warming, health care reform, income inequality, Koch brothers, money as free speech, Noam Chomsky, NSA, participatory democracy, Patriot Act, poverty, privacy, progressive taxation, public funding of elections, Sheldon Adelson, single-payer system, social security, Socialism, tax reform, taxing the rich, Ted Deutch, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to Democracy, Vermont, wealth inequality, worker ownership | 12 Comments
Yet another post about Obama’s capitulation on taxes for the super-rich
Unable to make the case himself, a rapidly aging Obama loosened the Goolsbee on the American left this morning. While some bought the explanation, a great many didn’t. And, unfortunately for the President, a good many of them were members of the House… The following clip comes from the Sam Stein: …In a meeting on […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 9/11, Austan Goolsbee, Bush tax cuts, Chris Van Hollen, estate tax, filibuster, first responders, Jay Inslee, Joe Scarborough, Lloyd Doggett, Marcy Kaptur, Obama, Peter DeFazio, standing up to the Republicans, tax the rich, taxes, the plight of the overtaxed rich | 12 Comments