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The North Carolina Coup: This is what happens when voter suppression stops working

By Mark | December 16, 2016

I don’t know how well it’s being covered by the television news, but, at this very moment, there’s a coup underway in North Carolina, as the Republican legislature, which was ostensibly called back to the capitol for a special legislative session to deal with the aftermath of hurricane Matthew, started passing bill after bill intended […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged asshole Republicans, coup, demographics, Donald Trump, gerrymandering, Moral Monday, North Carolina, racism, reconstruction, redistricting, Republican strategy, Roy Cooper, Supreme Court, tea party, the south, threats to Democracy, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act, William Barber | 15 Comments

Obama’s fiery response to the Republican budget

By Mark | April 5, 2012

President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech that ran in yesterday’s New York Times. President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Contract with America, defunding public schools, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Franklin Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, George Bush, Head Start, Henry Ford, infrastructure, John Boehner, land grant colleges, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, National Academy of Sciences, New Deal, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Paul Ryan, prosperity, research funding, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, safety net, Social Darwinism, social security, tax the rich, taxing the poor, the collapse of the Republican party, the conservative agenda, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics | 4 Comments

Yet another post about Obama’s capitulation on taxes for the super-rich

By Mark | December 9, 2010

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, Barbara Boxer, Bush tax cuts, Chris Van Hollen, estate tax, filibuster, first responders, Jay Inslee, Joe Scarborough, Lloyd Doggett, Marcy Kaptur, Obama, Peter DeFazio, tax the rich, taxes, the plight of the overtaxed rich | 12 Comments

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The North Carolina Coup: This is what happens when voter suppression stops working

Yet another post about Obama’s capitulation on taxes for the super-rich

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