Washington Liberals Blog
The Cancer in the Democratic Party
In February of this year, Chris Hedges penned an influential article, The Cancer in Occupy, in which he exposed and condemned the activities of the “Black Bloc” of violence-loving extremists who have weakened, divided...
We're the government, and we built all these
Without government, we’d still be hunter-gatherers. True, the government is often corrupted so as to server the few, but the solution isn’t to follow Grover Norquist and the Tea Partiers and drown government in...
Where's Howard Dean? We need progressive political leaders
What happened to Howard Dean?  He served as chairman of the DNC from 2005 to 2009. According to the wikipedia article about him, “He currently holds neither elected office nor official position in the...
Look what the bastards did to our country!
Some people think there’s too much partisanship. They think we need to be politer and more accommodating to people of “conservative” political persuasion. No way! Look what the bastards did to our country! At...
Seattle’s sick leave policy a good step
On July Fourth, we here in Washington actually got to appreciate a little bit of summer … finally. August delivered some hot weather that our friends back East would have easily claimed as a...
US Prison System is a monster
Brave New Foundation reports: Our prison system is a beast, gobbling resources that should be going to communities. Watch this video to find out why. Then get involved at http://beyondbars.org. This video was done...
Not so cool trick
This is largely correct. In addition to the tax cuts, there are also wars to pay for, and mismanagement and corruption. As Frank Thomas says in his 2008 book “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives...
All tactics diminish in effectivness with continued use
I got to thinking about an old piece of Saul Alinsky advice after reading the article cited below. Alinsky said that if you were sitting in at corporate offices and started running into comfortable...