Washington Liberals

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Quotes-economics.htm The Adam Smith that everyone knows: Every individual… intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his original intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectively than…

In a recent article in the Los Angeles Time, economist James Galbraith argues that “Stimulus Alone was Never going to bring Recovery.” See http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-galbraith-economics-20110815,0,843976.story I agree in part with his solution: “Let’s build a new financial system to serve public purpose and private business. And let’s start to act on our actual needs and problems:…

What’s going on with the Republican Party? Their candidates keep getting further and further out in right field.  The Tea Party libertarians are more extreme than typical Republicans in their opposition to government and taxation. And the new breed of Christian conservatives are more extremist in their religious beliefs and in their willingness to let…

Why is it that conservatives have been able to escape accountability for their inhumane priorities? That’s starting to change. Soup Kitchen at Dave Reichert’s office Norm Conrad of MoveOn reports that on Thursday the 18th at 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Working Washington is bringing the reality of job loss to Dave Reichert’s doorstep at…

We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics and all, and that means if this Administration wants to stay in the jobs game they’re going to have to find…

Be scared. Be very scared. [Graphic:  Uncle Sam being drowned in a bathtub, with five hands choking his throat] An alliance in the Republican Party has a stranglehold on the US political system.  The five hands choking Uncle Sam to death belong to Tea Party members and other libertarians, whose uncompromising opposition to taxation is…

Planning meeting today for ramping up copwatch activities in Olympia. Interested folks will be at Bigelow Park around noon enjoying the park and sitting in on the Olympia Really Really Free Market. I think we will have a training opportunity. Will also have some flip video camcorders to get out into the hands of folks…

The Metropolitan Democratic Club meeting on Wednesday August 10 featured two supporters of a two state solution in the Mideast, Rainer Waldman Adkins of J Street and Rob Jacobs of Stand With Us.  This was the present author’s first visit to a meeting of the Metropolitan Democrats group. Two weeks ago the organizer of the…

President Obama should call it quits and allow a stronger Democrat to run in his place in 2012. His repeated capitulations and sell-outs have so demoralized Democratic voters that they’re likely to stay away from the polls, just as they did in 2010.  And Independents dislike a weakling who stands for nothing but compromise.  So…

How the Tea Party was able to take over the GOP and how progressives can take over the Democratic Party. The most powerful political position is the Precinct Committee Officer.