The sad secret of Election 2012: We’re screwing up the climate, it’s the biggest challenge any of us will face in our lifetime, and the oil companies have so poisoned our national dialogue that nobody is talking about this (except Angus King, the Independent Senate candidate from the great state of Maine). Thank God we […]
By David Brin At their convention, the Republicans chose their theme: The coordinated message from two-thirds of their speakers would be American Exceptionalism. Unable to gain leverage by using the economy – which is slowly but clearly recovering from their own train wreck depression – and with the GOP suffering from devastating credibility gaps on everything […]
By BruceMcF When one first thinks about it, one would think the politics of not destroying civilization should be simple. It seems that Not destroy civilization, Yes/No? would get a very high Yes vote. In the immediate future in US political, however, its far more complicated than that, given that one party’s position is No, and […]
By David Brin It’s been said that a politician gets to be perfectly honest just once in a long career — at its end. Refreshing candor sometimes pours after an old pol has faced the last campaign. No more fund raisers or flattering voters. One chance to tell the truth. All right, it’s rare. Many […]
With Obama leading in all the polls (except for Rasmussen) and the GOP’s hope of taking the Senate dwindling like Arctic sea ice, there’s a danger that progressives and Democrats and environmentalists might get a bit complacent. And sit on their butts. And not work hard to elect people who care about the planet and […]
The Massachusetts Senate race has just become a battleground in the fight against climate change. In the debate between Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren and incumbent Republican Scott Brown last week, Warren brought up a great point about the consequences of voting for Scott Brown (and by extension, ushering in a Republican majority into the Senate): […]
The Romney Rmoney juggernaut was supposed to be this invincible wave that would drown Obama and the Democrats in the final days of the 2012 election campaign. The Citizens United decision would free up the big-bucks corporate donors, and their free speach (in the form of unlimited campaign cash) would swamp Obama’s advantages of incumbency (and […]
Watch this video excerpt of tonight’s 60 Minutes interview with Mitt Romney and tell me the man is operating on the same planet with the rest of us. When asked, and asked again, and asked AGAIN, about how he’s going to turn his campaign around he clings to his talking points like a man lost […]
How bad is Romney doing? When you’re the GOP candidate for President and you’ve lost Fox News, the AARP and David Brooks, you’re not going to get elected…. His few surrogates tried to push back with the transparent lie that he was just offering a “political analysis” that the 47 percent weren’t likely to vote […]
By David Brin Let’s start with a simple wager. During this election please count the number of times that Republican candidates actually run on their party’s record. How often do they speak of their periods in power, which were far more extensive than the Democrats’? Any statistically measurable accomplishments or proved positive effects? Shouldn’t effective leaders brag about […]
Here it is, the full Secret Romney Video in two parts. You can see some of our analysis in yesterday’s article (See: Why do 47% pay no income taxes? Because of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts.) We’ll update with more, but in the meantime watch the video to see the real Mitt Romney in action. […]
Romney is taking heat yet again, this time for saying he’s written off nearly half of Americans. Because they don’t pay Federal Income Taxes, he says that they are nothing but moochers sucking off the government tit. Update: We’ve got the full Secret Video up here! Watch it (The 47% comments come at 17:00 into […]
There’s a really good reason we want to send Alan Grayson back to Congress: The man gets it, he expresses it, and he has fire in his belly. Here, on the Bill Maher show, he shuts down the idiots spouting “but what do they want?” and gives as succinct a summary of the Occupy Wall […]
On the one-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, thousands vowed to shut down New York’s financial center, and nearly as many New York Police vowed to prevent that. The NYPD gridlocked lower Manhattan with police checkpoints, making it harder for New Yorkers to get to work than to vote (NY […]
On September 17 last year, a spontaneous movement erupted that brought thousands together to change the way America looks at our democracy. One year later, thousands have gathered at ground zero of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Zucotti park, to re-occupy and remind America that there is still a whole lot of work to be […]