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Our Economic Terminators
Last week, the New York Times penned a paean to Citigroup executive Bob Rubin, gushing about how amazingly wonderful his power and influence is inside the Democratic Party, and noting that the incoming Obama administration is heavily influenced both by...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Doug Schoen Edition
Doug Schoen is the DLC-affiliated pollster for Republicans like Mike Bloomberg - the guy who bashes progressive organizations from the right, the genius strategist who makes his name on perpetually telling Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on major issues (Think...
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The Political Argument Against Chairman Joe Lieberman
If Democrats retain the Senate and Barack Obama wins the presidency, there is an critical political argument to be made for stripping Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee - an argument that goes way beyond all...
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Free-Market Fundamentalist for Senate
Here's Colorado GOP senate candidate Bob Schaffer on the economy in today's Denver Post: "The dead hand of government is the biggest problem in general," Schaffer said of the country's economy, in pull-no-punches terms...Schaffer sees in the next Congress a...
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The Aristocrats II: Starring George Will Attacking Firefighters on 9/11
A few years ago, the film "The Aristocrats" made audiences guffaw with clips of comedians reciting their version of the dirtiest joke in history. Conservatives seem intent on following that flick up with their own version of The Aristocrats -...
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McCain Campaign Cites America's Richest County As Proof Trade/Econ Policies Are Working
FYI - As part of the Campaign for America's Future's new weekly Trade Report, we caught this snippet from Virgina. Yes, that's right, the McCain campaign is citing the wealthiest county in America as proof that the government's economic and...
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Bill Kristol Needs to Get Out More
It's pretty odd that the New York Times has hired Bill Kristol as a "national" commentator, when he so often writes like a local D.C. gossip columnist. Here's the scope of his "reporting" today: "But the next morning, as I...
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AP: Millionaires Feel Poor
This AP story comes right out of the Out of Touch File: "Even millionaires are feeling the economic squeeze, with many saying they don't even "feel" wealthy. But as a group, they are optimistic that things will improve in the...
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The Two Most Out of Touch Human Beings In America
I submit to you that the two most out of touch elitists in America are Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton. Here's Matthews in the New York Times profile about him: "I don't think people look at me as the establishment,...
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"Middle America"
Here's Hugh Hewitt's definition of "middle America."...
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The Capitulation Congress
So sad and pathetic that it's difficult to watch: "As Congress stumbles toward Christmas, President Bush is scoring victory after victory over his Democratic adversaries. He has beaten back domestic spending increases, thwarted an expansion of children's health insurance coverage,...
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Should We Really Celebrate Signs of Plutocracy?
Matt Yglesias celebrates the news that the Washington, D.C. metro area is even more socioeconomically disconnected from Middle America than previously thought. I have a different take - I think it's pretty bad when a nation's capital doesn't live the...
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House Votes for New Iraq Blank Check
Here's the Associated Press: "The House Tuesday passed a bill to keep the government running until mid-November, with both Democrats and Republicans determined to avoid a shutdown. The bill, which passed 404-14, also provides funding to continue Pentagon operations in...
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Only In Washington...
In another edition of "only in Washington" - take a look at this from My Left Nutmeg. Yes, only in Washington, D.C. is it perfectly acceptable for a person to work to elect a U.S. Senator who is leading the...
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Stop the D.C. Establishment
Go sign the petition right now....
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Quick Memo to Self-Important Capitol Hill Staffers
Memo to self-important Capitol Hill staff and political operatives who think they are the story, not their bosses: Landing a story in the Washington Post about how you convinced your boss to make a decision on a Supreme Court chief...
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Finding the Real Center
Markos and Susan G of DailyKos fame have a fantastic op-ed in the Washington Post today. Really - it is terrific. It shows how while Washington insiders at groups like the Democratic Leadership Council lay claim to the "center," they...
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Crowley: People Making "Well Over $100,000…Are Struggling"
New York Rep. Joe Crowley (D) - aka. Congressman Biff Tannen (D-Back to the Future) - tells the Hill Newspaper today that people "making well over $100,000" in New York City are "struggling." Now, I know New York is very...
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GOP Congressman Tells Hometown Newspaper That Monarchy "Is the Best Form of Government"
Here's Illinois Republican Rep. John Shimkus taking the overtly "pro-dictatorship" stance against democracy in his local paper: "When I taught government and history,” Shimkus added, "by definition, what is the best form of government, the most simple, is a compassionate...
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Another Conversion on the Road to Economic Reality
In 2005, I wrote a national op-ed for Knight Ridder newspapers that showed how when right-wing congressional politicians return home as governors from the fantasy land known as Washington, D.C., they often drop their conservative economic elitism in the face...
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Bush's Motto: You Do the Crime, You Don't Do the Time
President Bush just commuted the sentence of convicted felon Scooter Libby, making one of the lasting mottos of his presidency: You do the crime, you don't do the time. So much for the Republicans whole "law and order" mantra......
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What Else Should We Expect From a Lifelong K Street Lobbyist?
USA Today finally breaks the national media silence about the one-third of Fred Thompson's life that he spent as a high-paid corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Thompson's campaign, which is being run by his fellow K Street lobbyists, responded by...
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More Signs Edwards Is Doing Something Right
Bob Novak resorts to using his entire column to attack John Edwards for having the nerve to alienate the Washington Democratic Establishment by - gasp! - being a "populist": "Mark Siegel, a 35-year party insider, told me: 'He came to...
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VIDEO: Dems Promote the Innocent Bystander Fable At CNN Debate
I subjected myself to the torture that was the Democratic presidential primary debate last night, and came away thinking one thing: Many of the people on that stage really do not understand why the American public has often thought...
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The Innocent Bystander Fable
"There are 232 Democrats in the House of Representatives," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) tells us in yesterday's Washington Post. "There are 232 Democrats that believed that our policies in Iraq are failing." On this Memorial Day these are...
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We Gave Them Our Hearts, They Gave Him A Blank Check
It is a dark day in our nation's history. That sounds melodramatic - but it is true. Today America watched a Democratic Party kick them square in the teeth - all in order to continue the most unpopular war in...
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Dem Lawmaker Horrified That He Has To Actually Interact With His Constituents
The New York Times story on why Democrats are refusing to crackdown on lobbyists who bundle campaign contributions has this nugget: “We have dues that we are supposed to raise of several hundred thousand dollars, and in the same breath...
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Lieberman, Starved for Media Attention, Floats Threat of Switching Parties…Again
At what point does he realize no one cares about him anymore, and that the Senate remains in Democratic hands even if he switches? Apparently, he still hasn't gotten the memo, and every time he feels like he's not getting...
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Emanuel to Sirota on Trade: Go Cheney Yourself
Earlier this week the Politico reported that Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) responded to a reporter's inquiry about whether he supports lobbying reform by pulling his best Dick Cheney impression and telling the reporter to "Go f___ yourself." Coincidentally (or not)...
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GOP & Dem Senators: Give Bush An Iraq Blank Check So We Get Our Summer Vacation
The caricature of the Senate club with lazy, fat old politicians sitting around smoking cigars too busy to do real work has now, apparently, come to life. In an incredibly telling story just out on the Associated Press wire, we...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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