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UPDATED | Treason In The Age of Trump: Impeachment & Prosecution Won’t Suffice | Blog#42
Treason In The Age of Trump: Impeachment & Prosecution Won’t Suffice Continue reading UPDATED | Treason In The Age of Trump: Impeachment & Prosecution Won’t Suffice | Blog#42
Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
Here are your representatives in the U.S. Congress, in their own words, about what they are allowed and not allowed to see and do, when it comes to doing YOUR business in the context of a trade agreement that will affect your jobs, the prices you pay for certain things and the legal rights of corporations vis a vis the laws your Congress passed.
This is not how a Democracy is supposed to operate. Continue reading Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
#Senate #GOP and #CivilRights: underlining the writing on the wall
The story of the name change of the Senate subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights during a week that wasn’t bustling with breaking news is particularly distressing. Continue reading #Senate #GOP and #CivilRights: underlining the writing on the wall
Senator Claire McCaskill and Post-Election 2014 Democrats
Blogger’s note:
Whenever I’ve written about Claire McCaskill, I’ve always described her as a neoliberal. The purpose of her posturing on today’s Face the Nation is a reminder to her base of mostly white conservative liberals or ex-moderate Republicans, not to lump her in with a possibly rising progressive tide in the Senate. Continue reading Senator Claire McCaskill and Post-Election 2014 Democrats
Election 2014: Lessons for progressives
It was my hope, a week after the election, that I would hear and read meaningful analyses on the cause, consequences and long-term outlook for Democrats after their losses this midterm election. Very little of what I read this week was “filling,” until I came across William Greider’s “How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul” in The Nation. Greider concludes:
The tattered authenticity of the party matters more now because both the country and the world face dangers and disorders that demand a fundamental reordering of the global economic system. This requires bold action, at a time when neither party is confronting the threatening situation. The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the business-finance machine; the Democrats are rented.
Manchin: I Won’t Put Up With ‘Bulls**t’ If Dems Try To Obstruct GOP
The Silver Lining for #Democrats if They Lose the Senate in 2014
AUGUST 25, 2014
Yes, it’ll make for a miserable two years. But just look at what 2016 will be like. Continue reading The Silver Lining for #Democrats if They Lose the Senate in 2014
A Stronger Bill to Limit Surveillance – NYTimes.com
The Senate is about to begin debate on a bill that could, at long last, put an end to the indiscriminate bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records and bring needed transparency to the abusive spying programs that have tarnished the nation’s reputation.
Continue reading A Stronger Bill to Limit Surveillance – NYTimes.com