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Because health insurance companies invest millions of $$ in PR campaigns and in their campaign contributions to members of Congress, most people do not realize that there is almost no difference between these ‘business professionals’ and the Mafia when...

The quote, "...lay off Bernie Sanders a little bit, OK?", may sound “uninformed’ to many of Hillary’s ardent fans here at Dailykos, but you have to admit that there is a certain amount of political logic to it. I mean, after all, if Hillary Clinton...

Hillary Clinton’s NY primary victory yesterday showed Bernie’s faithful followers that---once again---in those states where her influence on the institutional party is great, it becomes very difficult to defeat her in a closed primary format.   ...

Why indeed?   A lot of Hillary supporters out there have been proclaiming since March 16th that Bernie Sanders has virtually no chance of winning enough delegates to grab the Democratic nomination.  The challenge he faces, they say, is too...

If you’re a Bernie Sanders supporter, you’ve heard it a million times: we need to change the tax code so that rich people will start paying their fair share in taxes.   But what do the words their fair share actually mean?  Bernie provides us...

Of all the key variables at play in the calculus of political campaigning, Time is the one that has always been most crucial to the aspirations of Bernie Sanders and his hopeful supporters. There are other variables, of course.  Without a compelling

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008.  They were indeed the key reason why I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama over Hillary during his march to the White House that year. It wasn’t simply th

We saw a post on the rec’d list tonight which essentially proposes that the reason why Dems lose elections is because sometimes one faction within the Dem Party starts to use extreme language to criticize the other faction.   Although, after reading

Oh yes, the Clinton campaign has done it again. They have managed, through their network of friends, to generate headlines in the MSM which feature their emotional accusation that Bernie Sanders demonstrated his sexist feelings toward women when he t

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008. They were indeed the key reason I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama in 2008. But it wasn’t just the si

As Bernie has pointed out lately, California has 20% of all delegates that are available to candidates and it appears that the West coast is going to be one of the parts of the country where he is goi

The fundamental problem Clinton’s campaign strategists are facing right now is the fact that... When people get to know the real Bernie Sanders, they like him It is the KEY reality which has

The headline on CNN’s Politics page read, “Clinton's Hill supporters ready to hit Sanders after New Hampshire”, quoting several notable Capitol Hill Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Sch

Hillary Clinton is given lately to describing herself as a Progressive who can get things done.   But if you actually look at her record, it is difficult to confirm that she has any kind of abili

Have you been somewhat confused as to what Hillary’s feud with Bernie is all about over Health Care?  I thought I might try to clear things up a bit, based in part on what I learned about the economic

There was a diary on the Recommended list yesterday with a title that explicitly claimed Bernie Sanders was not being completely honest about his Single Payer Health Care plan.   I found this cla

The Clinton campaign's dubious decision to start attacking Bernie with misrepresentations of his agenda is perhaps a very ominous sign for the many members of the Dailykos family who have invested the

In America today there is a widespread belief within the upper classes that the Income Tax is unfair to rich people.  I’d like to explain why, from an economist's POV, this belief is utter nonsense.  

John in Cleveland offered an assessment of the debate last night that I suspect many Bernie Sanders supporters agree with to a large degree. The essential feeling is that Bernie needed to be a lot ...

In another diary, nocynicism voiced an extremely legitimate question re: Bernie Sanders political ambitions, asking " How will he get all this accomplished with no help from Republicans? He will ...

It's been good to hear that Barack Obama now feels less pressure to accept bad compromises following his successful re-election bid, but as we approach the coming 'fiscal cliff', my biggest ...

( Cross posted at Nontrivial Pursuits ) There is one time when you can be absolutely certain someone is lying to you, and that is when their words are directly contradicted by their actions. The ...

Crossposted at Nontrivial Pursuits Last night, during a 60 Minutes interview, Mitt Romney was asked if he thought it was fair that he only paid a 14% tax rate on his $20 million income while a guy ...

Barbara Ehrenreich's poignant Preying On The Poor provides us with an all-too-accurate picture of The Poor as chronic victims of a hard-hearted Business Class. It is a sad reality that many of us ...

If you were to examine virtually any of the textbooks currently used to teach economics in college classrooms, you will find "Tax Cuts" listed under the heading of " Tools of Expansionary Fiscal ...

CNN is reporting that President Obama will be proposing a job creation package that may top $400 billion :

In a highly-rec'd diary, My Left Behind used a faked email from ...

Will I vote for Barack Obama in November of next year? Yes, if he is the Democratic nominee and the Republican running against him is as horrible as I expect him/her to be. But am I going to be ...

When I heard that President Obama was supporting a hike in the retirement age to 67, that was it. He has now made himself as much a threat to me and America's working class as any Republican ...

Breaking news heard on BBC tonight and confirmed by this written report from the ...

Kathy Hochul's surprising victory in NY's 26th Congressional District has awaken many within the Beltway to the possibility that Democrats might be able to use Republican attacks on Medicare to win ...

(FWIW, I have a Master's Degree in Economics and have studied economic theory at the Ph.D level.) According to Republican economic mythology , there is no better way to create ...

In a recently posted diary, entitled Extending the Tax Cuts is Not a Big Deal , ...

The other day my oldest brother, Ron (I have four), emailed me the following request: The following is an argument by our brother, Steve, for not increasing taxes on the rich. Can you ...

In the final weeks of most national campaigns, many Democrats can be heard complaining that the Republicans like to use fear tactics to win elections. I've always thought it is an odd sort ...

We are all quite aware of what's at stake. And yes, we are familiar with the bleak projections that have been made. I don't know how things are going to ultimately unfold, but I do know that there ...

President Obama, you have been listening to the advice of Rahm E., who has been telling you that the poor Blue Dog Democrats can't vote for a robust public option because they're afraid that it ...

A few days ago, in response to a recommended diary on bullying by ' that girl ',

It's all about incentives. When you need medical care for any reason, do you want to turn to an organization run by people whose only desire is to make money off of you at a moment when you are ...

For decades, Israel has sought to provide its citizens with Security by ruthlessly crushing any efforts the Palestinians might make to resist Israel’s absolute power. It’s an approach ...

I have long said that it is unfair to describe the Republican Party as America's version of the Nazis. It just isn't true that they are as deranged as the Nazis ended up being back in the ...

In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to explain one of the most important reasons (there are others) why Market economies have historically ...

If he is, then he might want to ponder some of the points I make in this [previously posted] diary. In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the ...

In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to explain one of the most important reasons (there are others) why Market economies have historically ...

Any number of commentators, economists, and politicians have said that it would be a horrible idea if the Federal Government were to get into the banking business itself. And you know something? A ...

So once again Israel's leaders have decided kill lots of Palestinians in Gaza in order to 'teach them a lesson' for supporting the leadership offered by Hamas. What kind of reasoning lies behind ...

In the final weeks of the 2004 campaign, many Democrats complained that the Republicans were using fear tactics to win the election. I thought it was an odd sort of criticism to be voicing, given ...

Should the government cut income taxes to stimulate the economy, as John McCain and the Republicans have suggested? No, it shouldn't. Take a look at a ...

One analyst last week estimated that after all is said and done, it could end up costing America taxpayers $1-$2 trillion to prop up Wall St and our failed banking system. Here's a better idea, ...

The whole Republican team---from John McCain to Secretary Paulson---is now working together to create a perceived crisis atmosphere in which to persuade Congressional Democrats to approve their ...