Romney Casts Aside US "Greatness" for "Belief" in Tea Partisan Dogma

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Sunday April 17, 2011 · 4:07 PM PDT

2011/04/17 · 16:07

Reputed Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has been called âthe weakest frontrunner we have ever seen,â by the editor of the National Review. Romney just published an electoral platform book last year and has already changed the subtitle to eliminate the suggestion of a vision for American âgreatnessâ. This sets him up as the anomalous candidate who tries to be both the unforgiving doomsayer and the glistening pitch-man.

The strange and unfortunate redaction is part of an attempt to placate radical Tea Partisans, with a bias against any program that invests government revenue in building a better future. Romney is, amazingly, tacking toward the Paul Ryan dogma, whereby âAmerica is brokeâ and âwe just canât affordâ to live up to the ideals we hold dear.

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Wednesday March 09, 2011 · 6:23 PM PST

2011/03/09 · 18:23

In Wisconsin tonight, the Republican state Senate stripped public employees of nearly all collective bargaining rights in a hastily called vote, in a dubious parliamentary maneuver. They did not notify the public or the minority party of their actions with adequate time for debate, and in just 13 minutes, they erased 50 years of progress on labor rights in Wisconsin.

They did this even as polling now shows that a significant majority of the public oppose Walker's plan and his methods, and support the unions and the right of workers to bargain collectively. Today, both political slush-fund ads put together by Karl Rove and the Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate openly stated that the measure was necessary to help Republicans win in 2012.

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Wisconsin Senate Leader Admits Budget Bill is Plan to Rig 2012 Election

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Wednesday March 09, 2011 · 3:49 PM PST

2011/03/09 · 15:49

Prosecute those responsible for plotting this corrupt power grab

The majority leader of the Wisconsin state Senate, Scott Fitzgerald, admitted today on FOX News that the radical budget plan he and his brother and Gov. Walker are trying to force on the people of Wisconsin is a deliberate strategy to cripple the Democratic party in 2012 and make it harder for Pres. Obama to win the state of Wisconsin.

Fitzgerald said if public servants lose their right to collectively bargain, it will undermine the unions that represent them in negotiations and that will deprive the Democrats of a key organizing and advertising platform, making it harder to win Wisconsin in 2012. Fitzgerald volunteered this information, and his admission should be treated by everyone across America as a shocking landmark in the degeneration of our politics.

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Michigan Governor Seeks Emergency Powers

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Tuesday March 08, 2011 · 6:46 PM PST

2011/03/08 · 18:46

The governor of Michigan is trying to force through the legislature a bill that would establish emergency rule, LITERALLY. Gov. Snyder is seeking emergency powers that would enable him to 1) unilaterally declare a "financial emergency", 2) disincorporate entire municipal governments, 3) dismiss elected officials with no replacement election to follow, 4) seize control of local civil services, 5) hand taxpayer money, services and POWERS to private, for-profit firms.

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Tax Cuts for the Wealthy DO NOT Create Jobs

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Tuesday March 08, 2011 · 6:28 AM PST

2011/03/08 · 06:28

After 30 years of re-engineering our nation’s economy and tax code to deliver huge benefits, free of charge, to the wealthy, the most massive transfer of wealth in the history of the world —a transfer of wealth that has led to now catastrophically failed wealth disparities between the wealthiest and the poorest—, we have not seen the wildly prolific job-creation that was promised. Indeed, we have seen our manufacturing base stripped away piece by piece and our middle class society systematically eroded.

Now, after 10 years of massive tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the history of humanity, we have seen a further concentration of wealth and a further erosion of the open market for employment and innovation. The 400 wealthiest people in the United States now control more wealth than 155 million people at the other end of the socio-economic spectrum combined. The tax cuts that were supposed to be given to the “supply side” were never given to the supply side at all, only to those that seek to own it.

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Wisconsin Governor's Rule by Fiat is NOT Democracy

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Thursday February 24, 2011 · 5:21 AM PST

2011/02/24 · 05:21

Gov. Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, is fast making a name for himself. He hopes it will be the name of a fiscal conservative committed to ending collective bargaining rights in his state, but it seems much more likely he is building a reputation as someone who refuses to prioritize the rights of working people and whose policy approach is unimaginative enough to resemble a Dickensian miser.

The attitude of the miser is not unique to or rooted in the hardship of the moment; it is inherent to the perspective the miser adopts in order to rationalize specific preferences and methods. But beyond the flawed reasoning of an illiberal tycoon, the governor’s legislative reasoning is part of a wider attitude that rule by fiat is bad only when it is done by those one disagrees with.

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Wisconsin Centrists Should Craft Bipartisan Alternative to Walker Bill

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 · 4:31 AM PST

2011/02/22 · 04:31

The state of Wisconsin has become "ground zero" —in the words of the protest movement there— in the struggle to defend over a century of progress in workers' rights. On Saturday, over 60,000 people were estimated to have rallied at the state capitol, and Sunday's crowds were said to be the biggest to date. More protests are called for this week, and Gov. Walker's opponents are now organizing a recall campaign against legislators who support his proposed legislation.

The labor unions who have offered major concessions in order to reach a negotiated compromise on the proposed reforms are standing astride the broad political center. They are showing that citizenship is rooted in the willingness to listen to one's opponents and to find shared solutions. The governor's refusal to do the same shows his aim to rule by executive fiat. He is setting himself up as a notorious adversary of the democratic process.

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Fact-based Reporting as Heroic Defense of Freedom

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 3:32 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 03:32

What is democracy? That is the first question that is always asked by pro-regime elements, whether in 18th-century Britain or France or 21st-century Egypt or Bahrain, because their aim is to muddy the waters and oppose the spread of democratic freedom. Free and open access to factual information is the cornerstone right of all citizens of a free society. Journalists are the "Fourth Estate" —in the words attributed to Edmund Burke, by Thomas Carlyle— the watchdogs of the people's access to truth.

The three estates were the "Lords Spiritual" (bishops of the Church of England), the "Lords Temporal" (the House of Lords) and the Commons. The members of the "Fourth Estate" sat in the reporter's gallery of the parliament and were, by their influence as writers, researchers, editors and publishers, the most significant of the four groups in terms of their ability to move public opinion and channel the influence of popular sentiment into the decision-making of the government.

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