We Are Winning On Trade–Pick Your Candidate
At the end of the day, when the madness of our election process is over, each of us is likely, no matter who we individually supported, to be disappointed. But, as I’ve pointed out since the 2006...
View ArticleWe Are Winning On Trade–Pick Your Candidate
At the end of the day, when the madness of our election process is over, each of us is likely, no matter who we individually supported, to be disappointed. But, as I’ve pointed out since the 2006...
View ArticleIs Joe Biden Good For Labor? Mostly, Yes.
As a whole, Joe Biden is considered a friend of labor. But, he doesn’t have a perfect voting record as far as labor is concerned. Lifetime, he has an 85 percent voting record on votes the AFL-CIO...
View ArticleBiden and Bankruptcy
Yesterday, I wrote about whether Joe Biden was good for labor. Relatively speaking, the answer is yes. Relative speaking because Paul Wellstone is not alive and, compared to the other people being...
View ArticleState Of The Union: Deep Twitter Thoughts on SOTU
Before the State Of The Union kthalps: guys, the only way obama can repeal dont ask dont tell is if we dont ask dont tell. so shut up abt it. duh! State Of The Union Starts kthalps: I guess we’ll have...
View ArticleSen. Tom Coburn, Thank You!
Ha! You wonder, why I would praise one of the people most determined to destroy a decent government? Because he may have single-handidly cratered the idiotic "Gang of Six". So, for that, he...
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Dear Joe: We’re Happy With Bernie
There’s been a lot of Joe Biden news–will he run?–and one of the things that has been clear to me is that a significant part of the conversation is being driven by elite, traditional media and the...
View ArticleEpisode 183: The People Should Own The Vaccine; Joe’s Bad Tax Ideas; A Union...
If I say that drug companies are sleazy leeches whose CEOs make millions of dollars while basically killing thousands of people who can’t afford outrageous drug prices, you’d shrug your shoulders and...
View ArticleEpisode 203: Biden Tax Ideas Are Weak Sauce; Give More Power For The Post Office
When Donald Trump and his minions are eviscerated in less than three weeks so the country can survive, I can’t think of a better illustration of the fight still to come for progressives than taxes....
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ELECTION PREDICTIONS–TAKE TWO!
As we enter into the final three weeks of the election, I’m updating my first set of predictions and musings—updates are partly adding new information (for example, actual turnout so far and a lot more...
View ArticleEpisode 204: COVID and Inequality—A Love Story; Landslide Coming!
The catastrophic failure to shrink global inequality has given COVID-19 the perfect breeding ground: tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger, extreme poverty, sickness and death because,...
View ArticleEpisode 205: Stiffing Corporate Lobbyists; Short-Time Work Salvation; Nurses...
It’s the permanent government—the corporate lobbyists who have friends in both parties. It is at the heart of why we don’t have Medicare for All, why the Pentagon is rolling in dough and why banks and...
View ArticleA Full-On Populist Biden Would Have Won Florida
Yawn. That’s my reaction to this perennial debate about whether a progressive agenda is a winning agenda. Of course, it is—and that has a lot to do with how you define “progressive”. At least, on...
View ArticleEpisode 212: Unemployment Money Chaos Redux?; Clawing Back Dough From The Rich
How many of you dealt with that chaos when it came to wrestling with the unemployment insurance system last year? Some of the rhetoric we heard was, “well that chaos was just the pandemic crush...
View ArticleEpisode 216: Wealth Tax On The Table; Two Trillion for The Global Poor; Joe...
The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID in one year, while millions of people have become...
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