Everyone should know by now that Republicans serve the 1%. But one weekend in Olympia I caught on video Democratic leaders doing something inappropriate with Tim Eyman. (From the left to the right in the video:  Larry Springer, Jim Kastama, Tim Eyman, Christine Gregoire, Frank Chopp, Steve Hobbs, Brian Hatfield) As reported here, the Road…

Signs of Intelligent Life in the Murdoch Universe.  The WSJ has article on “Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism.” There should be higher taxes on gasoline!

Click: ‘Roadkill’ Democrats Want Spending Reform With Tax Hike

If last year’s bank executive bonuses from the six biggest financial firms we bailed out went to creating jobs with middle-class jobs with benefits, the unemployment rate would plummet to 6.75% – the same as before the financial crisis. According to the latest data on year-end bank bonuses, 3.5 million jobs with benefits could’ve been…

Governor Gregoire and the legislature propose raising the regressive sales tax to overcome the budget shortfall that was caused by decades of tax cuts for the rich, reckless deregulation, and disastrous wars. Why don’t they instead eliminate some of the billions of dollars in tax breaks that benefit the 1%?  See Demand Tax Fairness in…

Mitt Romney in Worcester 2002 “My views are progressive”

I have an image in my mind of a fat butt. One cheek is Microsoft. The other cheek is Boeing. The legislators line up to kiss them. It’s a rather crude image, but maybe it can be made cute and funny. I wish David Horsey took requests! Any artists out there? There are plenty of…

The Government is Good website has announced that their book Government is Good: An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution is now available in paperback form and as an ebook. Why a book defending government? Because for decades, right-wing forces in this country have engaged in a relentless and irresponsible campaign of vicious government bashing.…

WHEREAS H.J.RES.90 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11/18/2011 by Rep Theodore E. Deutch [ D – FL-19], and WHEREAS H.J.RES.90 is titled “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude forprofit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States,…

The Olympian reported in July: I-1053: Filers say initiative violates state constitution, endangers education The League of Education Voters and several House Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday [July, 25, 2011] in King County to challenge the voter-approved two-thirds legislative vote requirement for tax increases. They say the limit in Initiative 1053 violates the state constitution…