Washington Liberals Blog
How can WA Dems pressure Senator Murray to stand firm?
I’ve heard from several activists that their efforts to talk to Senator Murray and her staff are having little success I’m a member of the Healthy WA Coalition, along with about 100 groups, and...
Quickie: Bush barred from Canada
Last week, Bush was forced to cancel a fundraising appearance in Toronto, Canada at Tyndale University College and Seminary, an evangelical Christian school. Students and faculty members protested and petitioned to keep him away...
Paul Craig Robert's "Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy"
From Counterpunch, by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Economic policy failed for three reasons:Â (1) policymakers focused on enabling...
Quickie from Democracy Now
The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. A...
Quickie: This slow bleed can't continue
The corruption, the injustice, the criminality, the war-mongering, the torture, the mismanagement, the stupidity, the level of unemployment, the concentration of wealth, and the lack of accountability have reached a point where society seems...
Lawrence O'Donnel Challenges Police Use of Force
Thanks to Abby Zimet at Common Dreams for her thoughts about this and for running this video there.
Inslee, McKenna, Ferguson, Dunn to speak at Newcastle Forum, Oct 22th
The Golf Club at Newcastle, The Municipal League and The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce have invited the front running, announced candidates for Washington State Governor and Attorney General to speak at a candidates’ forum...
The Great Postal Heist: How the GOP Manufactured the Postal Crisis
[The US Postal Service] faces destruction faces destruction – thanks to Republicans in Congress, acting for huge corporations through a manufactured “Shock Doctrine†crisis. This is an attack on unionized public workers like the...