The Dems lost in 2000 because Clinton triangulated. He signed onto NAFTA and approved a bill to overturn Glass-Steagall. Clinton thereby pissed off enough progressives to throw the election to Bush. The Dems lost in 2010 because Obama’s turn to the right empowered the GOP and disillusioned Independents and the Democratic base. If they lose…

George Carlin says the US is CTD (“circling the drain”). CTD is what doctors put on a patient’s chart when the patient is dying. “This country is really finished. It’s just a matter of playing out the end game.” “War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young…

Connect the dots. Extreme weather is fueled by climate change.

I support gay rights but question whether the fight for full marriage quality isn’t a wedge issue that will distract voters from more important issues such as war, military spending, the economy,  economic justice, corruption, climate change, health care, taxation, and green energy. Politicians love wedge issues.  Actually, I’m not sure of this. Maybe gay…

In this video, Mtt Romney says he opposes gay marriages wants to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman. “3000 years of human history shouldn’t be discarded so quickly.” But “Mitt Romney’s great-great-grandfather was Parley Pratt, a Mormon apostle who had twelve wives. ” (source)

From The race is on to fill new 1st Congressional District: …. In an apparent effort to trim the field, Gregoire and Larsen endorsed DelBene, as did the state Washington State Labor Council. But King County Democrats struggled with their pick. A subcommittee recommended DelBene and Burner, but then backed away from Burner when a…

The Northwest Progressive Institute and the Seattle P-I report: “BP and ConocoPhillips have each contributed $100,000 to the campaign for Initiative 1185, which would (again) put in place the requirement of a two-thirds vote in both houses of the Washington Legislature to enact new revenue measures or close corporate loopholes. Oil refiners’ checkbooks were open…

The LA Times is reporting Mitt Romney apologized Thursday after a newspaper story described bullying behavior on his part when he was an 18-year-old senior at an elite, all-boys prep school in Michigan. The Washington Post detailed a 1965 incident at Cranbrook School in which a buttoned-down Romney apparently was incensed by the dyed blond…

The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: Last week you visited Afghanistan to sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement. As you stated at Bagram Air Base, “this time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end.” The…

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