Share Dear Mr. President, Please Call Paul Krugman! As usual, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman was right.  President Obama’s jobs & tax cut bill (i.e. the stimulus) was too small.  Krugman, economist Dean Baker, Joe Stiglitz (also a Nobel winner) and some members of the Obama economic team (is this why Christina Romer left?) knew it at [...]

Share Follow the Money Here’s a partial breakdown of what the five Republican hacks on the US Supreme Court did to our democracy with their Citizens’ United travesty.  Secret, multinational corporate donors and anonymous radicals own our elections and a $250 million plus share of the Republican House of Representatives.  The total spending of this election will probably total over $4 [...]

Share  There are three phases to think about: (1) the lame duck session, (2) the new Congress, and (3) the 2012 campaign (which starts now). The Lame Duck Session It’s likely that nothing big will happen, although it should if Democrats believe in their agenda.  Yesterday was no mandate for the Republican party, which is [...]

Share Supreme hacks in the Courthouse Made Congress a whorehouse Wall Street foxes from the penthouse Got keys to the henhouse They’re as clean as a pig’s house Should be sent to the big house Money changers in the steeple house But now they own the people’s House Obama stopped Bush’s depression But GOP gridlocked [...]

Share Now’s as good a time as any to start the mad rush to 2012! Republicans will win back the House tonight and probably take 9 of the 10 seats they need for the Senate. It’s easy to imagine a Nelson & Joe L switching to the Republican caucus if it gets close enough to [...]