I hope you read the post yesterday featuring Thom Harmann's interview with Thomas Frank about how the Democratic Party quite consciously transformed itself from the party of the working class and middle class to the party of the Republican-lite rich professional class. If you didn't, please do... it's important to the foundational narrative we've been developing here are DWT over the last decade.
I was in a state of shock this week. I met with some Democratic insiders and the most insider of all-- after repeating word-for-word the Wall Street/Schumer line of why Alan Grayson must be destroyed-- agreed with my assessment of Debbie Wasserman Schultz... perhaps not the specifics of the case against her, but totally with the conclusion: for the sake of the Democratic Party and for the sake of the country, she must be defeated in the late August primary. Wow! Everyone who voiced an opinion inside this relatively establishment group agreed.
Joe Baca was one of the worst members of Congress when he was in Congress-- a corrupt, conservative Blue Dog and NRA shill. Although he voted with the Republicans against core progressive values and principles virtually all the time, there is such an utter lack of party discipline that he was able to cross the aisle with complete impunity.
Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, Roy Cohn, Herr TrumpfOf the times we've covered Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, then of the Genovese crime family, currently enjoying the hospitality of a federal penitentiary, one batch of stories was about a Mafia-affiliated Republican congressman from Staten Island, Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm (currently in federal prison on a
Dr. Michael Mann giving us the latest news about Arctic sea ice (source)by Gaius PubliusWe've covered what's happening in the Arctic before in these pages. For example:
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As the value of money rises, the value of things goes down, and vice versa (illustration by Constance Heffron, Happy Days, 1951, Allyn and Bacon; source).by Gaius PubliusWhy are the world's largest corporations sitting on trillions in cash?
Bill Maher and Ann Coulter in June 2015 discussing the prospect of a Sanders presidency (from The Thom Hartmann Show)by Gaius PubliusI put up the video above to show, again, that many including Ann Coulter think Sanders would be the more formidable Democratic candidate for president in the general election. The recent McClatchey-Marist poll seems to confirm Sanders' strength.
Thom Hartmann on Exxon's Climate Coverup: "After a 7 year federal investigation - the tobacco lobby was found guilty of violating federal racketeering laws. And now the prosecutor who tried that case is calling for a federal investigation into Exxon. Find out why..."by Gaius PubliusAs most readers know, we've been following the "Exxon Knew" story for quite some time, ever since the blockbuster exposé of internal Exxon documents going back to 1977.
Friday Bloomberg reporters Adam Pearce and Mora Rojanasakul wanted to see how much of the cash flowing into the various campaign coffers was coming from "real people." So they stripped out donations and loans from political committees and other sources as well as loans and contributions the candidates gave themselves.
