Hard to imagine, but MN-06 is likely to wind up with someone WORSE than Bachmann!Drowning in scandal and extremism-- and facing a rematch with Jim Graves, the Democrat who nearly beat her last year-- Bachmann was uncharacteristically wise to announce her retirement from Congress.
Several years ago, Blue America invited Alan Grayson to speak at the Brave New Films studio in Culver City. For many of the attendees, myself included, that was the first introduction to the 20th century's greatest mathematician, Alan Turing. You can watch the 4-minute Turing part of the chat above.
Thursday we saw how Buck McKeon, the Military Industrial Complex's single most bribed politician in American history, forced the Pentagon to waste $2.5 billion on overpriced drones the U.S. military neither needs nor wants.
Social Security is the most popular government program in the history of America. But elites have always hated it and have always tried to undermine and destroy it. We can't kill the elites but we must stop them from killing Social Security. Before Paul Ryan began clamoring to cut Social Security, mainstream Republicans had been too scared to touch the "third rail" of American politics.
Tomorrow afternoon we'll randomly pick the winner of the Neil Young contest. So, it's still not too late to enter. Like we explained last week, it's easy to win the RIAA-certified double platinum award for Neil's classic Harvest Moon.
The first time I spoke with Pennsylvania state Senator Daylin Leach, I was astounded. I asked him if he knows Alan Grayson. At the time they hadn't met. I was asking because I'm always looking for candidates who are something like Alan. No one is more like Alan-- and in so many profound and wonderful ways-- than Daylin. Both are what we would have called in my Brooklyn neighborhood "stand up guys"-- courageous, smart and dedicated to taking on the tough jobs and seeing them through.
Time to grade the Democratic freshmen-- or at least to pick out the 10 best and the 10 worst. Which ones lived up to what Alan Grayson laid out in his little monologue above? And which served the interest of careerism and corporate special interests above the interests of their own constituents? Short version-- for people in a hurry-- here are two lists (alphabetized), the 10 best, followed b the 10 worst:
Blue America has had a long relationship with Alan Grayson, going back to his very first campaign when all the insiders said he had no chance to win the primary and then, after he won it, no chance to win the general election. He was too plainspoken and he wore his heart on his sleeve. Right up out alley.
Today's the end of the FEC fundraising quarter and I want to refer you to a post yesterday you may have missed about real bipartisanship, bipartisanship based on compromising that genuinely works for both sides, not compromise based on a combination of opportunism, bribery and one side betraying core values.Some Members of Congress-- virtually all the Republicans, all the New Dems a
Yesterday we talked about how cowardly New Dem freshmen Patrick Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema, who Boehner and Cantor know they can count on to almost always betray progressive Democratic ideals and vote with the GOP in a way that allows them to claim their toxic agenda is "bipartisan," h
