One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of oligarchy, the fight to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and those things that she feels that we, as Progressives, are ready to fight for. […]
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Elizabeth Warren outlines the fight ahead for Progressives at Netroots Nation 2014
Posted in Corporate Crime, Detroit, Politics Also tagged big banks, corporate personhood, corporations are not people, corruption, Elizabeth Warren, gay rights, infrastructure, lobbyists, marriage equality, minimum wage, net neutrality, Netroots Nation, populism, power grid, Presidential politics, Progressive platform, progressive politics, social security, student loan debt, too big to fail, trade agreements, unfair policies, Wall Street reform 15 Comments
Romney… We’ve established that he’s not the solution, but the problem… Now, it’s time to bring on the dancing horses
The swiftboating of John Kerry, I guess, wasn’t a total loss. Sure, we lost the election because of it, but we learned a thing or two in the process. Most importantly, we learned from Karl Rove that, if you really want to destroy a man, it isn’t enough to just go after him where he’s […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged attack ads, Bain Capital, Bring on the Dancing Horses, dancing horses, David Axelrod, Echo and the Bunnymen, George Bush, John Kerry, Karl Rove, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, off-shore accounts, outsourcing, political ads, purple heart, Robert Bentley, Swiftboating, tax evasion, tax shelters 20 Comments
The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again
I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Buffett Rule, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, Coachella, Eric Cantor, holograms, income inequality, Jesus, Joint Committee on Taxation, Jon Kyl, Maine, Mitt Romney, national debt, payroll tax, progressive taxation, small government, small government Jesus, Susan Collins, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Tupac, Warren Buffett 26 Comments