Washington Liberals

“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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...