We Serve It, Even When It's Hard To Swallow
According to published sources, a former Bush administration official, representing the powerful payroll processing industry, is responsible for a letter to House Republicans encouraging them to reject the Senate plan to extend the payroll tax cut for working-class Americans. The letter has now become a major talking point for the Teapublicans in defense of their treasonous acts against average taxpayers.
The speaker’s opposition came as a complete surprise to fellow Republicans in the Senate, who overwhelmingly supported the bill, and after Boehner had privately praised the legislation during a reported conference call with members of his own party. But that was before Eric Cantor and his fellow Teapublicans voiced their opposition.
Several hundred demonstrators used a ladder to scale a fence surrounding a vacant lot owned by the Episcopal church near the 9/11 memorial site. But if these protesting American citizens, most out of work and hungry, thought they would find understanding and sanctuary from the church, they were sadly mistaken.
Mitt Romney is a permanent member of what I like to call Darwin’s Workshop. He is always evolving, and that makes it difficult to pinpoint his positions on anything. He changes positions like people change their underwear (daily). However, one thing is certain. As he makes his presidential run in 2012, Mitt Romney is not a progressive in any sense of the word.
I happen to think that, as Progressives, we have a greater responsibility to question the President on his policies, because we’re the ones who put him into office, and if we refuse to be honest about our own guy, then all of those derisive spitballs lobbed at the other side are nothing more than a grand exercise in hypocrisy of the worst kind.
Anonymous message to Wall Street: “We have changed the rules of the game. Growth of the magnitude required to maintain your capital in its present form is no longer possible for you. Your ability to seduce the public has been destroyed. Your survival has long depended on your capacity to suppress the truth of your abuses, and that ability is now gone. We have removed it.”
Are we talking about the American peoples’ dream of a corruption free government? Or, is this simply the wet dream of the hedge fund managers, the banksters on Wall Street, and people like the Koch brothers who want to abolish every regulation in place for the sake of profits? Is this really an effort to expand democracy, or is this simply another attempt at a corporate coup d’état?
When people ask me why these two candidates are so important, my answer is very simple: Both women are true progressives, and that’s what America needs. It’s pretty clear that the present ‘system’ of electing our leaders isn’t going to change any time soon. We’ve made halfhearted attempts at reforming the election process and have basically gotten nowhere.
Jon Stewart and John Oliver spar in the latest edition of The Daily Show’s “Indecsion 2012,” taking on the ABC News Iowa Debate and Mitt Romney’s $10,000.00 bet. Oliver encourages Mitt Romney to use his enormous wealth to finish Rick Perry once and for all.
It is no surprise that with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the growing anger of the 99% over the rampant greed and disinformation that exists in our society, that someone would put Charlie’s poignant words from The Great Dictator to images from those things that plague mankind today. The words and theme of Chaplin’s speech ring as true today as they did then.
More than 150 people were peacefully removed from their tents in another police raid conducted under the cover of darkness.Unlike other cities, the Boston eviction was not marred by excessive force or violence against unarmed citizens. However, up to 45 protesters were arrested when they refused to cooperate and locked arms in defiance.
This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make or break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement.
Watch live video of President Barack Obama’s key speech on the economy and the growing economic divide in America. The president will use the words of Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in this speech from Osawatomie High School in Kansas.
Perhaps these banks are finally realizing that the more you decimate the middle class, the fewer customers you’re going to have who have need of your more than dubious “services.” That 1% is a pretty small group and you can only cannibalize it for so long before it starts to eat away at itself. It’s like inbreeding. Do it enough times, and pretty soon you’re going to have a child with an arm growing out of its forehead.
I honestly don’t know how people like Kyl sleep at night, but then I remember Kyl is simply one liar among many, who has no qualms in misleading his so-called constituents with blatant out-and-out lies – that are entered into the Congressional record, no less.
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