Both Parties Face a Shock Wave in 2012
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 2nd, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Both Parties Face a Shock Wave in 2012
Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Those waging war against American workers are winning. Incumbents of both parties will be losing. The next great change election is coming. The economic and political shock wave will be momentous as budget politics will increase joblessness and reveal with brutality that Washington is out of touch with heartland America and dominated by special interests that voters deplore.One-fifth of the nation suffers from Depression-like pain. Tens of millions of additional voters know the recession continues for them.
Walker, Christie Talking Like Adults on Budget
Gene Healy, Examiner
“An adult conversation” — that's what we need to have about spending, President Obama proclaimed at a Feb. 15 presser. The president's hardly the first to use that cloying, self-congratulatory phrase: so many House Republicans mouthed it in November that Jon Stewart put together a “Daily Show” montage on the theme.It's Washington's favorite sound bite these days. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., even called for having “an adult conversation” about prostitution in Nevada (I'm pretty sure you can't have…
In Madison, Reactionaries in the Streets
Margaret Wente, Globe & Mail
Everyone in Canada has been transfixed by the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Too bad we’ve ignored the tens of thousands of protesters converging across the border in Wisconsin. The drama playing out there is likely to have a far bigger impact on our lives, far sooner.In Madison, unlike Cairo’s Tahrir Square, it’s the reactionaries, not the reformers, who are in the streets. It’s the labour groups and old-line Democrats who are relentlessly agitating for the status quo.
