American Politics

There is an Organized Effort to Block the Vote in Ohio and elsewhere in AmericaCome Rally For Fair Voter Rights (Contacts for the rally are Larry Bresler at 216-651-2606, Debbie Kline at 216-310-7657, Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114 and Art McKoy at 217-253-4070)Monday May 7, 2012 8:30 A.MCarl Stokes Federal CourthouseCorner of Huron and Superior Ave. (801 West Superior Ave., near Detroit Superior Bridge)Senator Dick Durbin (IL) and Sherrod Brown (OH)  will be holding a hearing as part of...Read Full Story

Want to know how to put swing states like Arizona with Republican Secretaries of State firmly in the Mitt Romney camp?  Use birther nonsense to threaten to take President Obama off the ballot, of course.  Voter suppression not working?  Just eliminate the Democrat as a possible candidate. The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is...Read Full Story

I expect this sort of thing from Politico.I don't expect a whole hell of a LOT from Joe Biden, but coming from the Vice President of the United States, this is just irresponsible.  It's an outrage:Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists,” according to several sources in the room.Biden’s office declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session.  Earlier in the day, Biden told...Read Full Story

ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama's jobs bill as they seek elusive party unity around the measure, even as Obama tries to pin the blame on Republicans for Congress' failure to act. Officials say Democrats are moving to jettison provisions that Obama recommended to pay for the bill and substitute a tax increase on millionaires. It could get support from Democrats who oppose Obama's...Read Full Story

Is America Terminally Ill? America, once the healthiest and most vibrant nation on the planet, has a disease, and I pray that it is not ultimately determined to be terminal. The people running the show today -- liberals -- seem to think that they are well on the way to curing the disease, but they are really the root cause of our ills, despite their rhetoric to the contrary. Part of me clings to the hopeful belief that liberals truly consider their crusade to be noble, for I would mourn at...Read Full Story

As is par for the course, the   American Taliban have no logic, especially when it comes to ANY kind of budget.  So their plan now is to force the Democrats in to choosing between the GOP budget or the one from the Obama administration. That would be the budget proposal idea’s that the Dems haven’t come up with in the last 2 years. Read more.   by kos for Daily Kos    Tue May 24, 2011 Mitch is very confused. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst) The GOP's new favorite talking point: Republicans in...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats plan to force a vote this week on a portion of President Barack Obama's stalled $447 billion jobs bill, a senior party aide said on Monday.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is crafting a proposal to provide about $35 billion to help states hire and prevent layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers, the aide said. Obama and his fellow Democrats agreed to break the president's plan into pieces after Republicans blocked the overall bill last...Read Full Story

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/source/12552656/lifeinthefieldDO REPUBLICANS WORK TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS WHO MIGHT VOTE AGAINST THEM?John R. LimingEditor and PublisherThe Liming Liberal DigestEDITORIAL AND OPINIONRepublicans said to be working to disenfranchise voters is such an important story that I must absolutely address it one more time.America's very future may well depend on a general awareness by the Voting Public of what an insidious, pervasive and persistent threat to Democracy as...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama threw his support on Tuesday behind efforts by a bipartisan group of senators to negotiate a new deficit-reduction plan aimed at averting a looming debt default.Obama said a proposal by the "Gang of Six" group of senators is broadly consistent with his approach on reducing debt and deficits and he urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to start "talking turkey" about it.(Reporting by Matt...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Republicans in Congress on Tuesday dismissed President Barack Obama's proposal to revive job creation in the United States and pay for it by raising taxes.Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, in a speech on the Senate floor, blasted Obama's proposals for paying for the jobs plan through "permanent" tax increases. "What the president's proposed so far is not serious. And it's not a jobs plan," McConnell said.Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner...Read Full Story