Washington Liberals

I shot this video on the streets of Seattle during our guerrilla projection action last week and just found it online. What fun.

Tom Rasmussen has been a member of the Seattle City Council for nine years and for the last three years he has chaired the transportation committee. Seattle faces many challenges with the growth of population and increasing congestion. One complication comes from the fact that the responsibilities for safe, efficient transportation are split among the…

[Update: 2012/05/38.  Two new presentations: *How to Rebuild the Economy in Washington StateSenator Maralyn Chase, 32nd LD *Ending Wars & Fixing Congress  Darcy Burner Democratic Candidate for Congress 1st CD] Are you coming to the Democratic Convention in Seattle & looking for an inexpensive place to have dinner Friday night, June 1st? Are you interested…

Via Paul Richmond:  A Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite Last year, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post reported that U.S. Special Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries, up from 60 at the end of the Bush presidency. By the end of this year, U.S. Special Operations…

In this hilarious, crude, and politically astute 6 minute video, Bill Maher destroys Republican claims that Obama is a Socialist and ends by saying, “Can anyone tell me what the Democrats want to do? The best I can come up with is: ‘Elect us. We’re lame, but the other guys are nuts.’”

Koch Industries has pattern of violating ethics, environmental laws

Think Progress is reporting: Democrat To Offer A ‘Lifeline’ For Single-Payer Health Care. “Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds they’re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a universal single-payer system. Advocates are describing the bill as a ‘lifeline’ for advocates.…

WSJ’s Market Watch reports: Obama spending binge never happened Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s  WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this…

We have a lot of public heroes. We tend to think of the firefighters, EMTs and police who arrive at an accident, save lives, care for the injured, and clean up the mess. But we often ignore some lower profile public heroes, who we literally depend on for the health of our community. You can…