Debunking The "Individual Mandate is Unprecedented" Myth
Crossposted from The People's View.For too many both on the right and the left opposed to the new health reform law, the favorite attack point is the individual mandate. "The government has never...
View ArticleForget Clapping. How About Not Taking a Dump on Obama?
Crossposted from The People's View.Today, Markos has a post up about the 10 point gap GOP has opened up in the Congressional generic ballot. In it, he cannot resist the temptation to take his latest...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald's Unhinged Attack on Obama and Democrats
Crossposted from The People's View.I am beginning to find Glenn Greenwald's logic seriously twisted and angry with near-zero intellectual prowess. In a column he penned on Salon.com, Greenwald starts...
View ArticleBoxer vs. Fiorina: The People's Senator vs. Privileged CEO
Crossposted from The People's View.Last night, Sen. Barbara Boxer debated her Republican challenger, disgraced former HP CEO with a golden foot in her mouth, Carly Fiorina. Not only did Fiorina have...
View ArticleArrogance of a Microphone: Talking Down to Barack Obama
Crossposted from The People's View.yesterday, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks (and an oft-called for guest host on MSNBC) wrote a condescending piece purporting to teach President Obama how to fight....
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GOP Continuing Hostility to Jobs as Economy Shows Signs of Life
Crossposted from The People's View.In the fledgling economy, Friday's jobs data showed some signs of new life. Private sector employers added 67,000 jobs in August, better than expected, while the...
View ArticleBarack Obama: $400 Billion in Major New Investments in America
Crossposted from The People's View.I think that by now you all caught yesterday's Labor Fest speech by President Obama. The President was fired up (if you haven't watched the speech yet, by the way,...
View Article"Paying People Not to Work"
Crossposted from The People's View.That's how the Tea Party Republican astroturfers describe unemployment benefits. So today, I want to find out just who wants to pay people not to work. I intend to...
View ArticleCovering 5 Million Children with Real Public Health Insurance
Crossposted from The People's View.65% of the 7.3 million children without health insurance in this country - and that was data from 2008, which is the latest data available - or 4.7 million of them,...
View ArticleWhat the Base is Saying About Obama: Labor
Crossposted from The People's View.Lately, there has been a lot of people claiming to speak for the Democratic base - the progressive base. Cenk Uygur, whom I took to task last week for his...
View ArticleObama, Democrats and the Base: Women's Health Community
Crossposted from The People's View.This is the second in my series to examine and highlight the achievements President Obama and the Democratic Congress have made together for Americans who are...
View ArticleMerits of Appointing Elizabeth Warren Through Regular Process
Crossposted from The People's View.here is a prevailing opinion on the Left to appoint Elizabeth Warren immediately and temporarily, bypassing the need for a Senate confirmation process, as head of the...
View ArticleObama Administration Moves to Trim Defense Fat by $100 Billion
Crossposted from The People's View."That never happens!" exclaimed Rachel Maddow after in last year's budget, the Obama administration canceled the F-22 raptor program (video here), a bloated Defense...
View ArticleBoxer Hits Fiorina Hard in New Ad (w/ Video and Transcript)
Crossposted from The People's View.If progressives are looking for a Senate race in which they can be proud of fighting for probably the liberal conscience of the Senate, I have got it in my home state...
View ArticleHelping Insure Early Retirees: Health Reform In Action
Crossposted from The People's View.We hear plenty of whining in the media and in the blogosphere about how the historic health care reform law passed earlier this year is a political loser because it...
View ArticleObama to Wall Street Hack: It's Main Street that's Suffering
Crossposted from The People's View.President Obama held an hour-long townhall meeting on Monday, moderated by CNBC's John Harwood, discussing a wide range of economic issues and concerns. The press...
View ArticleHealth Reform Lowering Premiums and Saving Lives Right Now
Crossposted from The People's View.We have heard Republicans scream and moan about how health care reform will "explode" the cost of health care and bust the budget. Well, as usual, the GOP leadership...
View ArticleContinued Beatings, Morale, and Voting FOR Something
Crossposted from The People's View.I found a piece yesterday on the Daily Kos "recommended" community diaries list mildly amusing. Titled"Will Morale Improve With Continued Beatings?" the piece is...
View ArticleLog Cabin Republicans Award Homophobes from Texas
Crossposted from The People's View.The Log Cabin Republicans are the LGBT contingent within the Republican party. Why anyone gay would want to be a Republican is beyond me - I'm not saying they have...
View ArticleKrugman Figures Out GOP Pledge: No More Congress!
Crossposted from The People's View.John Boehner might want to be Speaker of the House, but his party is proposing a budget that would eliminate the Congress altogether. That is, if the Republicans...
View ArticleSebelius Slams Right Wing and Health Insurers, Points to Cost Accountability...
Crossposted from The People's View.In the past few months since historic health care reform became law, there has been a lot of beating up on this administration. If the right is always true to its...
View ArticleGallup: Young Voters Move to Democrats
Crossposted from The People's View.There has been plenty of pontificating from all corners of the political and blogging establishment classes about how it is going to be a bloodbath for Democrats in...
View ArticleSurprise! Democrats ARE Running on Health Reform.
Crossposted from The People's View.There's a story being told to you kids by the national media types. The story is that health care reform is incredibly unpopular and that Democrats are running away...
View ArticleIRS Asked to Investigate Karl Rove's Political Group
Crossposted from The People's View.Republican front groups have been propping up everywhere to spend limitless cash to elect the truly crazy this year. One such group, the brainchild of Karl Rove, is...
View ArticleFinancial Reform: A Global Success in Regulating Banks
Crossposted from The People's View.Nearly everyone can agree on the cause of the recent global financial meltdown: excessive risk-taking by large banks and financial institutions. What the right...
View ArticleHey, GOP? Do Government Jobs Count or Don't They?
Crossposted from The People's View.Today, the jobs report came out for September. It's bleak, showing a net loss of 95,000 jobs, despite a gain of 64,000 private sector jobs (marking the ninth...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Know the Choice in November. Do We?
Crossposted from The People's View.Some of the loudest critics of health reform say that health reform is a boondoggle to health insurance companies. It delivers an individual mandate (they skip the...
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Dollars, Fish, and The Enthusiasm Gap
Crossposted from The People's View.We have been told by the political right that we are living in the age of Citizens United, the age of unlimited corporate money in politics (including foreign money),...
View ArticleTaxpayers' Cost for Financial Rescue Down Substantially
Crossposted from The People's View.So TARP ended on October 3. Demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum love to hate TARP, and decry the $700 billion the US government put on the line to...
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Day of Purple: In Memory of Young Victims of Homophobia (Plus: Sec. Clinton...
Crossposted from The People's View.Today we are all to wear purple in honor of spirit day, in memory of the gay teenagers who committed suicide and to support young gay people who are struggling. A...
View ArticleMeg Whitman Admits Californians Should Vote for Jerry Brown!
Crossposted from The People's View.Oh, this is a hilarious turn of events. If ever you thought the political gods don't have a sense of humor, you stand corrected today. Here is a new ad Jerry Brown...
View ArticleEnthusiasm Gap? Meet the Voter Gap!
Crossposted from The People's View.You know that much vaunted "enthusiasm gap" that was going to wipe out Democrats in November and usher Tea Party Republican nutjobs into power? Hold off on that for...
View ArticleChamber-Funded Group Attacks Kamala Harris in CA Attorney General Race
Crossposted from The People's View.Suddenly, after the Supreme Court's deplorable "Citizens United" ruling (ironically named, given nearly 80% of American citizens are united against that ruling),...
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Barbara Boxer Pulls Away in California; Leads 49-41
Crossposted from The People's View.Carly I-know-how-to-create-jobs-in-China Fiorina has been blanketing the airwaves with attacks on Sen. Barbara Boxer lately, but it seems the more she tries to tell...
View ArticleHow'd That Pissing on Obama Thing Work Out for You?
Crossposted from The People's View.I was going to write an article expressing these sentiments, and I figured I might as well let Cenk Uygur's scathing screed against President Obama be the catalyst...
View ArticleThe Democratic Sweep In California
Crossposted from The People's View.On election night, Democrats had a rough time across the country, but you wouldn't know that if you looked at California. Statwide, California had a Democratic wave....
View ArticleBREAKING: White House Opposes Any Effort to Strip Out DADT Repeal
Crossposted from The People's View.Yesterday, I wrote that DADT repeal is not dead. Not yet. Not only was yesterday's entire bru-haha based on a single anonymous source, there were contradictory,...
View ArticleMore Important Than An Election
Crossposted from The People's View.The election of 2010 is over. Democrats are still reeling from it, and political strategists are still engaged in "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I'm as disappointed as...
View ArticleProgressive Income Tax Reform in Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs' Proposal
Crossposted from The People's View.There's a storm over the release of the proposal of the two co-chairs of the Presidential Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Especially when it comes to...
View ArticleHuge Retail Sales Gains and the Obama Jobs Recovery
Crossposted from The People's View.Amidst the plethora of right wing victory celebrations and left puritan whining, the economy continues to show signs of recovery. The signs are quite significant...
View Article"Left Puritans" and Why I Continue to Defend President Obama
Crossposted from The People's View.Yesterday, I crossposted my article about retail sales and the Obama jobs recovery here on Daily Kos. It caused a bit of a stir in the comments, it seems more than...
View ArticleHe's A President. Not A Dictator. Also, Lay Off Michelle Obama!
Crossposted from The People's View.Last evening, Cenk Uygur, the radio personality and MSNBC fill-in host, posted yet another one of his "Why won't President Obama listen to meeee" diaries here on...
View ArticleBlack Friday Weekend Roars Back as Obama Recovery Continues
Crossposted from The People's View.In mid-November, I wrote a piece about the Obama recovery in consumer spending, specifically, retail sales. This past weekend was the nation's biggest retail sales...
View ArticleTax Compromise: President Obama Had Your Back
Not that anything under the Sun is new, but a good chunk of the Left established media (both new and old) are in uproar over the compromise between President Obama and Congressional Republicans on...
View ArticleWhy the Payroll Tax Cut is No Threat to Social Security
Crossposted from The People's View.I am pretty disturbed about the righteous pompousness happening in some corners of the ideological Left trying to portray the reduction in social security payroll...
View ArticleThe New Corporate Media: $315 Million for Huffington Post Owners Costs Pink...
Crossposted from The People's View.I don't know how many of you know this, but the Huff and Puff Post has a new owner. Don't know who? I'll give you a hint: You've got mail! Yes, Huffington Post has...
View ArticleAbout Those Medicare "Cuts"
A version of this story is published at The People's View.To say that there is panic in much of this side of the blogosphere about a meme that President Obama is trying to "cut" Medicare and Social...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Evisceration of Republican No-tax Religion, and A Lesson in...
A version of this story is published at The People's View.On Thursday night, lots of people were running around screaming, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" over rumor-mill reports that...
View ArticleIt's Not a Threat, Congressman Kucinich. It's Math.
A version of this story is available at The People's View.Congressman Dennis Kucinich put up a scathing attack on the President today. His beef? That the President said in his speech last night that...
View ArticleIn Love with Conflict
A version of this post is published at The People's View.Cenk Uygur had a piece today on Daily Kos today that personifies the Professional Left's idiotic romance with conflict. Conflict not for any...
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