“In negotiation after negotiation, the Democrats continue to give the Republicans almost everything they want.  Despite the fact that our deficit problems were caused by the greed on Wall Street which led to the current horrendous recession, huge tax breaks for the rich and two un-paid for wars, the President and the Democrats have gone…

In Assessing Obama’s “Peace” Moves author and journalist Robert Parry calls on progressives to view the withdraw from Iraq as a victory of the anti-war movement. The American Left is often hesitant to see anything positive in incremental changes like the pullout from Iraq and the combat shift in Afghanistan — preferring to focus on…

From Brown’s October 26, 2011 talk at University of Washington.

Last week our Governor released her “Budget Roadmap” for cutting another $2 to $4 billion from the State Budget. http://www.ofm.wa.gov/reductions/alternatives/all_budget_alternatives.pdf But Hoover proved long ago that we can not cut our way to prosperity. Each billion in cuts equates to the loss of 10,000 public and private sector jobs. Firing public workers in the middle…

President Obama wants to blame the Republicans for his inability to pass progressive legislation. Indeed the Republicans are bad news. But Obama bent over backwards to protect Republicans and their corporate allies from accountability for their many crimes. Rather than fight them, he coddled them, surrounded himself with Wall Street executives and Bush holdovers, and…

Free Speech for People, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, People for the American Way, and Common Caucus are jointly sponsoring house parties on Wednesday, November 9th, to work on the campaign for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.  The parties will feature a nationwide conference call with U.S. Senator Bernie…

Protesters arrested, pepper-sprayed at Chase bank I’m waiting for the day when the police join the protesters and demand action on ending the injustices we face.

Her third try:  http://darcyburner.com/  

If you make cuts to Social Security and Medicare, if you make only token cuts to defense spending, and if you don’t raise taxes on the rich, you don’t deserve to be re-elected.    Stop acting like Republicans and stop blaming them for your many compromises and sell-outs.

We are the 1%. We stand with the 99%. (Well-to-do people who want higher taxes.) The GOP are adamantly opposed to raising taxes. They’ve so corrupted elections, deceived the people, and stacked the Supreme Court that it may be impossible to dislodge them from office in the near future.