Washington Liberals Blog

Let's get aboard 0

Let's get aboard

Now that most of us have voted or will have done so shortly, what comes next? You may not have gotten aboard for this election, but let’s grab the future.  Most likely, unless we...

Thomas Franks on progressives, Democrats, and Occupy 1

Thomas Franks on progressives, Democrats, and Occupy

From Slate’s interview of Thomas Frank (Tom Frank: Obama’s made left “futile and irrelevant”): “The only honest way for progressives to assess the experience of these past four years is by coming unflinchingly to...

BAINPORT: Sunday- Live Interactive Podcast 0

BAINPORT: Sunday- Live Interactive Podcast

Join this special interactive live podcast with the Sensata workers of Bainport. They have been striving for an economy that works for everyone, not just “Vulture Capitalists.“ This is your opportunity to hear from,...

The Republicon con game, and why impeachment mattered 1

The Republicon con game, and why impeachment mattered

I’m reading Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. Great book! Depressing. It tells the vivid story of how right wingers were able to quickly recover...

King County Republicans taking ballots 0

King County Republicans taking ballots

From:  http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/02/king-county-warns-that-gop-is-trying-to-collect-ballots King County Elections has posted an announcement on its home page about the GOP trying to collect ballots, and saying, basically, don’t give them your ballot. “We recommend that voters return ballots...

Bush Speaks 0

Bush Speaks

See Media ‘blackout’ as Bush speaks in Cayman Islands

If Obama loses, if Obama wins 0

If Obama loses, if Obama wins

Progressives, Democrats, and others on the Left need to plan their post-election strategy. 1. If Obama loses If Obama loses, there will be panic and outrage on the left. Many people will claim that...

Insider account of how D.C. is corrupted by Wall Street money 0

Insider account of how D.C. is corrupted by Wall Street money

The current issue of the New Yorker has an article that well describes the culture of corruption in Washington, D.C.  “Washington Man” by George Packer tells of Jeff Connaughton’s trajectory through our nation’s capital...