Washington Liberals

According to Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the richest 1 percent of Americans now own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. Twenty-five years ago the top 1 percent owned 33 percent of national wealth. The Top 1% Take Home 24 Percent Of National Income. See 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America. The Top…

I got the email below from MoveOn.org, asking me to call Senators Cantwell and Murray and ask them to support President Obama’s jobs bill. Of course, I support the bill, and our senators should too. But isn’t it a forgone conclusion that these Democratic senators will support it? If so, isn’t the email a waste…

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How un-American: torture, immoral wars, vote fixing, imprisonment without trial, handouts and taxbreaks for billionaires,  desecration of the environment, government for the corporations, theocratic combining of church and state, free trade agreements that ship jobs overseas, etc. The protesters in D.C. and on Wall Street are true patriots and should adorn themselves with tri-colored hats…

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The Occupy Wall Street and Oct 6 protests are positive, in that they raise awareness, but it’s hard to see how to leverage them for significant gains at the polls.  They may cause Republicans to lose some races in 2012 — which is a positive step.   And they may allow President Obama and other…

Jon Stewart comes to the defense of Occupy Wall Street It’s more than humor. There’s real, intelligent journalism.

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Progressives of all stripes are converging at Westlake Center in Seattle tomorrow at noon for a big protest against corruption and injustice. Joining hundreds of similar protests around the country, activists will be saying loud and clear: We’re fed up with the out-of-control corruption, war-mongering, injustice, and lack of accountability of our political system. The…

Monday at Drinking Liberally in Bellevue, a Democratic friend angrily confronted me and asked me to tone down my criticisms of President Obama. “Do you want a repeat of 2000 when Nader handed the election to Bush? President Obama said he’d escalate the war in Afghanistan when he was running for office. What did you…