Changed happened. This video was put together by Slog commenter Digitocalypse. It serves as a good antidote to the lazy Democratic claim that President Obama has done nothing to help the country since he was elected. Watch it. Share it. Make it go viral.
Reported this morning by Garrett Haake, an embed for NBC, reported that Mitt Romney said, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” However, that quote is showing up all over Twitter as “I like being able to fire people.” And therein lies one of the biggest problems with how we [...]
This morning, Speaker Pro Tempore Jeff Denham, under orders from Speaker Boehner, refused to allow Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn to speak on the floor and call for the payroll tax cut conference committee to get to work: Mr. Clyburn [microphone silent]: Mr. Speaker, Democrats are here ready to work. We can’t wait. We [...]
Award-winning journalist Barbara Ehrenreich gets to the root of what it means to live on minimum wage, or below. She doesn’t just talk about it, she actually lived the experience. Most of us in the 99% live one paycheck away from being homeless, and most have to work more than one job just to get [...]
Republicans universally believe government should be run as a business, and reduced in size so that it can be “drowned in a bathtub.” There are several things inherently wrong with their ideology. At the top of the list is, while corporations may control our Congress, our government is not a corporation. At least not yet. [...]
Mitt Romney is taking corporate greed to a whole new level. It’s not that he wants to “kill Big Bird,” he just wants Big Bird (PBS) to collect money from advertisers. Apparently, Romney is of the mindset that our kids simply do not get enough ads shown to them during the day. Explaining his plan [...]
This morning, President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2011 FACT SHEET: The United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security “The goal is as simple as it is profound: to [...]
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