Josh Marshall Interview with Keith Ellison on the DNC Chair race

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Friday January 06, 2017 · 12:19 PM PST

2017/01/06 · 12:19

Sorry in advance for such a short diary with so little original content, but the interview Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo did with Keith Ellison regarding why he wants to be DNC chair and what his goals are is well worth a listen:

talkingpointsmemo.com/…

Marshall will also be interviewing Tom Perez and the other candidates in the days to come.

Defeat the Three Stooges

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Monday September 10, 2012 · 2:43 PM PDT

2012/09/10 · 14:43

Three of the biggest clowns in congress are in competitive races for their seats this fall. Michelle Bachman, Joe Walsh, and Steve King all stand a solid shot of getting booted from the house, and it goes without saying that we have real opportunity to rid the house of representatives of some of the ignorance, bile and fanaticism that have plagued in the last couple of years.

Often, clowns like this are in completely safe districts, but that ain’t the case here – the window is open!

Follow me over the jump to an update on where these races stand.

Maxlongstreet

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Friday October 28, 2011 · 4:43 PM PDT

2011/10/28 · 16:43

If you open a newspaper in Chicago these days, you see city floating one crackpot scheme after another to raise cash. One day its ticketing half a million dog owners at $100 or $200 a pop - over 95% of Chicago dogs are unlicensed. The next day it's a plan to put in automated cameras that lead to speeding tickets over half the city. The next day it's about fining those who don't shovel their driveways. The next it's about making bicycle riders in the city pay a registration fee. And on and on and on.

Why cities are pulling this crap and why it sucks below the fold.

Maxlongstreet

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Friday October 07, 2011 · 10:30 AM PDT

2011/10/07 · 10:30

One of the most pernicious lies peddled by Republicans has to do with the idea its fault of the unemployed that they are out of work, and that by extending unemployment insurance, you increase unemployment by removing the incentive to work.

This denigration of the unemployed can be seen today as part of the Republican's vicious assault on #occupywallstreet - their assertion that it's the protesters' own fault that they don't have jobs. As Tea Party presidential candidate of the month Herman Cain recently pronounced to #occupywallstreet:

"If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Like just about every other time Republicans have claimed that it's necessary to punish American workers in order to improve the economy, objective data is proving them wrong.

An overlooked study from the Department of Labor asserts that unemployment insurance, in addition to what it provides for those thrown out of work, saves literally millions of other jobs. More below.

Maxlongstreet

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Wednesday September 28, 2011 · 12:42 PM PDT

2011/09/28 · 12:42

This diary is being done at the request of angelajean, who wrote an interesting diary about #OccupyWallStreet and included a link to a poll about what people think Occupy's official demands should be. I commented that the poll wasn't focused - most of the poll questions didn't really have anything to do with Wall Street and thus wouldn't give a lot of good feedback. At angelajean's suggestion, I threw up a more Wall Street oriented poll on my website. Link below

Maxlongstreet

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Monday September 26, 2011 · 4:19 PM PDT

2011/09/26 · 16:19

I've noticed that the recent media hubub about the government's loan to failing solar producer Solyndra has many of those who are passionate about increased government support of the clean energy industry on the defensive. It shouldn't.

The furious tea party/anti-government attack on Solyndra and clean energy is simply a part of a defeatist ideology; the mistaken notion that government can't create jobs or improve the economy. The proper response is to attack this nonsense head on, rather than shy away from discussions about clean energy in the face of Solyndra publicity. This is an opportunity to make the case that we need far more support and loans to clean energy projects, not less.

Frankly, I consider it a disgrace that the government has only spectacular failure in its energy loan portfolio. Why? Because if only one company has failed, we aren't making enough loans.

Maxlongstreet

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Wednesday September 07, 2011 · 12:50 PM PDT

2011/09/07 · 12:50

In case you haven't heard of her, Kathryn Wylde occupies the seat on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that is supposed to represent the public - "to represent the public" is her explicit mandate. Instead, she has been making headlines by representing banks. She chose the occasion of a funeral service to attack New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who in his efforts to hold banks accountable is suing to block a deal the federal government is trying to make with Bank of America, wherein investors who hold mortgages worth $174 billion would be bought of by BoA for $8.4 billion. At the memorial service, Wylde says she told Schneiderman the following:

It is of concern to the industry that instead of trying to facilitate resolving these issues, you seem to be throwing a wrench into it. Wall Street is our Main Street, love em or hate em. They are important and we have to make sure we are doing everything we can to support them unless they are doing something indefensible.

It's time to fight for the firing of Kathryn Wylde, whose conflicts of interest in this matter couldn't be clearer. More below.

Maxlongstreet

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Friday August 19, 2011 · 12:50 PM PDT

2011/08/19 · 12:50

Years of crappy service, tons of hidden fees, and most importantly, an economy destroyed by their greed - it was time to take the plunge and commit to never dealing with a bank again. I don't know why it took me so long!

This week was the last straw - a check bounced because of the horde of hidden fees that hit my account - $6 for using someone else's ATM, many $ worth of fees for using the debit function at a merchant, and most insultingly of all, fees for 'entering the wrong pin #' when trying to withdraw cash at an ATM.

I'm done. I joined a credit union.

Maxlongstreet

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Monday January 17, 2011 · 3:20 PM PST

2011/01/17 · 15:20

Of all the lies of the Republican Party, few are so pernicious as their claim that regulation of business kills jobs. It's an easy lie for many people to believe, because it fits into a simple soundbyte, has a certain plausible logic to it, and has powerful corporate interests pushing it every day. One of its worst aspects is that it has seduced many "moderate" Democrats, to the point where a great argument can be made that belief in this lie was the major failing of the Clinton Administration. In fact, the exact opposite is true: Deregulation of business has been the biggest job killer of the last 20 years.

This is a message progressives need to hammer home every day - not arguing that regulation isn't so bad, but rather that regulation is the biggest job saver at our disposal. A searing article from Economist William Black, writing at The Huffington Post, outlining the entire, sickening case of how deregulation has cost millions of jobs in this country. More on the other side.

Maxlongstreet

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Friday December 03, 2010 · 11:53 AM PST

2010/12/03 · 11:53

There’s been a lot of people here on this site singing the praises of Wikileaks, with one recent recommended diary comparing Julian Assange to Daniel Ellsburg, and Wikileaks document dumps to The Pentagon Papers. I’m here to make the case that such support is misguided, and does the cause of transparency a disservice.

Maxlongstreet

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 1:35 PM PDT

2010/05/21 · 13:35

Lost in the latest news of the gulf oil spill and Rand Paul's latest kooky comments is the quiet killing by Republicans of one of the financial reform bill's best possible amendments - the Merkley-Levin amendment, which implemented the so called 'Volcker Rule'. Merkley-Levin and the Volcker rule were designed to crack down on banks' risky proprietary trading.

You may be forgiven if you thought Merkley-Levin would be included in the bill, after all, the media was reporting that it looked to be near the 60 votes required to overcome even a Republican filibuster. But Republican parliamentary maneuvers, combined with a lack of leadership on the part of Senators Dodd and Reid to make sure the amendment got a vote, ended up killing the essential Volcker Rule without a vote even be taken. How did it happen? Read on.

Maxlongstreet

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 8:31 AM PST

2010/02/03 · 08:31

When it comes to derailing Obama's proposed reforms of the financial sector, big banks have no bigger ally than Corporate Whore Christopher Dodd. The Connecticut Senator is leading the charge to water down these reforms, which he describes as trying to do too much and threatening beloved bipartisan progress with Republicans. While Republicans are corporate whores on principle, Democrats are corporate whores because they are corrupt. In Dodd's case, it appears likely that, with his tenure in the senate coming to an end this year, that he's auditioning for a lucrative private sector job in the banking industry. Details below.

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