Feb
2011 3
2011 3
Rand Paul’s $500 Billion Plan to Abolish the Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of the Interior, the State Dept. and…Davis-Bacon?
Captain DoubleSpeak, Rand Paul, is in full effect now that the new Congress is in session. Last week Paul called for the abolition of the Department of Education saying it is “an overreach of power by the federal government.” What was he granted as a result? An appointment to the Senate Education Committee, of course. ...
Feb
2011 3
2011 3
Policies That Incentivize Manufacturing in the U.S. Are the Only Way Upward. Job Growth Projections Are Meaningless.
We Party Patriots is making a habit of attacking statistics which aim to revitalize the public’s faith in the economy through projections that are based on survery and polls. These practices, which I like to call deflectionism, only serve to dilute the real conversation about actual progress which must begin with written laws and policies ...
Jan
2011 31
2011 31
Neither Health Care nor the Deficit Are At the Top of America’s Concern List. Jobs Are.
The surest indicator that voters are not as inflamed about either the deficit or “Obamacare” as the right keeps claiming can be found in Karl Rove’s Wall Street Journal musings. To argue that Americans share his two obsessions, Rove now is reduced to citing polls from either Fox or a Brand X called Resurgent Republic, ...
Jan
2011 25
2011 25
“We need to be building our own infrastructure in the districts, not treating local- and state-level politics as something that we can engage in for a few months at the end of each election cycle.”
Amy B. Dean, outspoken labor supporter and co-author of A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement, made a clear and concise call to action last week in “Mr. President: The Fight for the Middle Class Isn’t in Washington.” She asserts that state and local governance and leadership are more ...
Jan
2011 25
2011 25
State of the Union Survival Kit
Tonight, people across the globe will tune in to see how Barack Obama will describe the state of the world’s most talked about union. There has been intense dialogue leading up to the annual address, much of it to do with the Republican selection for SOTU rebuttal — Paul Ryan got the nod but, naturally, ...
Jan
2011 24
2011 24
Conservatives Introducing Legislation to Eliminate the Minimum Wage in New Hampshire
When you voted for State Senator and State Representative last election, did you think you were voting against New Hampshire’s working families and lowest paid employees? Well it seems the new legislative leadership in Concord thinks you did. So far, less than a month since they were sworn in to office, these newly elected leaders ...
Jan
2011 20
2011 20
On the De-Klein: WashPo Blogger Kinda Sorta Might Possibly Maybe Support Labor
Washington Post blogger, Ezra Klein, has recently penned a couple of union-related pieces, one of which We Party Patriots referenced last week, wherein he discusses the problems facing Labor Unions, but fails to offer any solutions. Klein should be applauded for shedding light on what has become the most important story for the middle classes, ...
Jan
2011 19
2011 19
Don’t Shoot the Pensioner
In Act 2, Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s famous play, Antony and Cleopatra, there is a moment of true sadness for the female lead. News has been brought to Cleopatra, via messenger, that Antony has married another woman, Octavia. Cleopatra devolves into misplaced rage, strikes the messenger with great force and wishes “the most infectious...
Jan
2011 15
2011 15
VIDEO: Bill Maher to the Tea Party — “The Founding Fathers would have hated your guts.”
The ever-ornery and always-sharp Maher points out the glaring differences between the Tea Party and the Founding Fathers, whom the Tea Party has consistently laid (lied) claim to. Includes photograph of Glenn Beck dressed up as Thomas Paine, an atheist...
Jan
2011 14
2011 14
So You’re Preaching to Your Choir, but Your Choir’s Watching Fox…
This piece written and distributed by Richard Slawson, LA/O Building & Construction Trades Council. For the last 30 years company bosses have been hiring “union-busters” to block legitimate attempts by workers to have a Union at their place of employment. For all of that time companies have declared that their workers didn’t...
Jan
2011 13
2011 13
Calls for Unions to Halt Support of Democratic Candidates are Intensifying in Volume, Visibility Online
Recently, We Party Patriots applauded Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper for his Labor Department leadership selection. Yesterday, we published our first account of a progressive journalist, Roger Bybee of In These Times, suggesting that the Union Movement quit supporting, both financially and politically, Democratic candidates until the party...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
“It’s easy to talk about these things in the abstract. It’s another thing when you start taking away people’s college loans and cutting early education programs.”
This morning the Washington Monthly reported that the new GOP leadership has already begun to flip-flop on their pledge to cut $100 million from the budget this year. TWM notes that top aides are saying the $100 million figure was “hypothetical” which, those of us not interested in being duped by political doubletalk know, is ...
