"The Tea Party is Over, The Real Work is at Hand"

It was the nail-biter that wasn't
...not even close.
By just after 11,
the GOP gave up the ghost.

Turns out voters are smart --
they knew just what to do.
They knew...

In the 1950s, with a top marginal tax rate of about 90 percent, we had the necessary revenue to help veterans attend college, to create good jobs, to create and grow a middle class.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported an addition of 171,000 jobs and an...

Mitt Romney wants to be president alright... this president.

We knew the foreign policy positions of the the two candidates were similar, but who knew Mitt copped a peek at Obama's notes before the debate and wrote them on his hand? Romney now is a peacenik, supports an announced date...

Barack Obama reappeared Tuesday night. He seemed to own Governor Romney on issues of foreign policy, women, immigration, the 47 percent and with a fatal blow regarding the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. Don't get me wrong, Mitt was no wimp, and Obama was no progressive, but Obama...

Who won the first 2012 presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama? If you ask the Twitterverse, Big Bird nailed an easy victory.

Huh? In case you missed it, the sole quasi-joke either candidate cracked came when Mitt Romney vowed to choke off the government funding that pays some...

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Georgetown Law professor, Peter Edelman, to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, So Rich So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty In America. Peter Edelman was legislative aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and...

Supporters of Obama's health care reform are "keeping a stiff upper lip" reports The Hill as reaction to three tough days of oral argument and questioning on aspects of President Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The entire health reform effort seems to...

Mitt Romney said it this way: "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they are fine... I'm concerned about the very heart of America..."

President Barack Obama...

Thank you, super committee! You failed, now the rest of us gave a chance to succeed.

Thank you to super-committee Republicans who remained intransigent in their insistence of governing by and for the 1 percent, protecting their self-interest and the interests of the super rich and Wall Street bankers. Thank...

Timeline:

Desperation
Agitation
Immolation
Promulgation
Exhortation
Anticipation
Deflation
Escalation
Resignation
Liberation
Celebration!

For the life of me, I couldn't find anyone accusing Sarah Palin of being Jewish.

I was prepared to point out how the media are succumbing to the paper-tiger arguments from right-wingnut outlets that the so-called "left" is accusing Sarah Palin of whispering in the disturbed inner ear of Jared...

We entered 2011 with a few more dollars in our paychecks. For about 98 percent of Americans, the extension...

Tis the Season: A Victory for Civil Rights

Let's celebrate this day, Dec 22 2010. It is the day President Barak Obama signs into the law the repeal of the onerous policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in which a person can be expelled from the U.S. military based on...

We want you to be the President for the 98% of us who need you. That's what we want you to do.

"Isn't it wonderful to be in a city of misplaced priorities and ass-backward judgments" says retiring Representative David Obey (D-WI) of the Obama/Republican tax breaks for...

Remember all the hoopla in years past from Conservatives crying about liberal/secular attacks on Christmas? Make No Mistake. Those who are violating the Christmas Spirit with the most vile of attacks are the Conservatives.

It's almost too easy to compare congressional conservatives to Charles Dickens' character Ebenezer Scrooge....

Beck can scapegoat us all he wants, but IPS and other independent organizations will continue to fight the good fight.

Glenn Beck recently baffled reasonable people by playing with creepy "socialist" puppets on his Fox News program while blabbering about how beneficiaries of billionaire George Soros' philanthropy are supposedly Conspiring...

PROGRESSIVES IN POSITION TO MOVE FORWARD: PART 3 of Hill Progressives WON!

In the third part of my "Silver Lining" series, trying to find some hope in moving forward after a mid-term election in which Conservatives gained a lot of power, I will...

Who Gives A Rat's Rear End that Progressive Lawmakers WON? :
Why the Congressional Progressive Caucus Matters More than a Rat's Hindquarters
Part II

I recently published the first blog post in this series, Buck Up Progressives--We WON! Many readers appreciated the silver lining...

Buck Up People... Progressives WON!
Part One of A Three Part Series...

No, I am not playing the popular elementary school game of Opposites Day. Its true. Progressives won in the 2010 mid-term elections.

As touching as it was to see Boehner choke up over the retelling...

On election night, my politico side wanted to watch every painful second of election returns. But it was also my fifth grader's favorite show, Glee. So I had to...