Toon | GOP And Corporate Economics

Yup, that about sums it up.

Chicago Union Leaders | Inexcusable Greed

This just makes me ill.  Especially since the average retired Chicago city employee makes only $29,000/year. All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state’s lengthy pension code. The changes became law with no public debate among state legislators and, more importantly, no cost analysis. Twenty years...

Americans Strongly Reject Tea Party ‘All Cuts, No Taxes’ Ideology

Looks like the GOP, being led by the politically myopic Tea Party is yet again completely out of step with the American public at large.  A new article in Forbes shows, overwhelmingly, that the general American public soundly rejects the Tea Party’s platform of all cuts/no taxes.  It ain’t even close. According to a compilation of 27 polls conducted between Nov. 26, 2010 and as recent as Sept. 16,...

War Without End Update | Obama Putting Drone Bases In Africa

Oh, how could this POSSIBLY go wrong? From the Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said. One of the installations is being established in Ethi­o­pia, a U.S. ally in the...

Congressional Republicans | Clean Energy Hypocrites

Well, well, well. After lambasting President Obama‘s stimulus program (which worked) and lampooning the President’s clean energy programs, thanks to the intrepid folk over at WestWingReport, we find out that Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell sought not once, but twice to get loans from the Dept. of Energy to build an electric car plant in Kentucky. But in 2009, McConnell wrote two letters to Energy...