Washington Liberals

Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment The Onion can’t beat that for absurdity.

“Senator Orin Hatch and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed raising taxes on working families by $11 billion to make room for tax cuts for the wealthy.” GOP Poverty Creators Plan to Increase Taxes on 22.9 Million Poor and Middle Class Families

Democrats Suzan DelBene, Laura Ruderman, and Suzan DelBene are battling it out for the chance to run against Republican John Koster for the 1st CD seat. Burner took an early lead, with strong support from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party (see this article) and from out-of-state netroots supporters. But when Burner tweeted comments…

According to the well-documented article Microsoft Wins Nevada Royalty Tax Cut and Tax Amnesty; Reports Record Revenue, in 2010 the Washington State legislature gave Microsoft an effective $100 million annual tax cut by revising the definition of the royalty tax. …It also gave Microsoft amnesty on an estimated $1.25 billion in unpaid taxes, interest and…

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another…” Gustav Landauer Have to pack and set up the Really Really Free Market in Olympia.  Contracting other relationships, behaving differently toward one another?  Can we really destroy…

Seattle — To mark the 47th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid, area retirees with the Washington Alliance for Retired Americans, Physicians for a National Health Program, and allies, celebrated in full force in downtown Seattle on Saturday, July 28, 2012 from Noon-2:00 with a sidewalk parade from Seattle Center, through Pike Place Market, to Victor…

We have to take the profit motive out of providing health care. Insurance companies are corporations required by law to produce maximum return on investment for their shareholders. This leads to excluding people with pre-existing conditions, failure to provide health care for low-income children and their families, and lifetime caps on coverage that cut off…

Does the Second Amendment guarantee our right to kill? GOP plays on fear disguised as freedom. Image credit:  http://ladilex123.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/gun-violence.jpg At least a dozen people shot dead in the Colorado slaughter, and the RepubliCorp Party remains eerily silent on the issue of gun violence in America. Worse yet, most Republican lawmakers continue to kowtow to the…

Peace Action reports that House Roll Call No. 495, an amendment that effectively freezes military spending at this year’s level, passed the House with bipartisan support. Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and Barney Frank (D-MA)’ amendment cuts $1.1 billion from the 2013 Pentagon budget All Washington State Democrats supported the amendment, as did one Republican. Freezing…

Ok, a little more on the judge races. And specifically on the question of how to figure out who is really qualified to sit on the bench. The table below is from VotingForJudges.org.  VFJ does not do a rating, it simply compiles and attempts to present an unbiased presentation of the judge races.  All of…