TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES

UP-DATE:  Check-it-Out at the New York Times.  Economist David Leonhart explains that the FACTS do not support the Republican assertion that the Bush Tax-Cuts for the rich created jobs.  We learn that in the decade that these draconian tax-cuts have been in place has been the slowest decade for job growth since the 1940s.  So the BIG question to be answered is:  Since we know that these tax-cuts d ...

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN?

Republicans tell us that "The American People have spoken" in last Tuesday's mid-term elections.  Well, if you consider 42% of registered voters --- or 90 million of America’s 300 million people --- as representing The American People, then they certainly have spoken.  And yet, considering that most of the results of these elections were decided by razor thin majorities, can we honestly say tha ...

THE STORM HAS PASSED

On five hours sleep this election night the main emotion I'm feeling is relief that the tsunami has come and gone.  Amid the destruction there are a few points of gratitude.  California has given us a Democratic Governor and returned Barbara Boxer to the Senate.  It's so nice to live in a sane state Sister Sarah has egg on her face with several of her Tea Party candidates going down in flame ...

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

In a previous post I declared that I had worked through my grief over the mid-term elections, and had found a peaceful place of resignation --- along with a certain kind of hopeful expectation that the Republican Party is self-destructing.  Check-It-Out:  REPUBLICANS GO THE WAY OF THE WHIGS. Well ... maybe that was just a brave attempt at putting-on-a-good-face, and rationalization as a band-ai ...