Jan Schakowsky

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a plea deal to keep the details of his case sealed for good. Given that prosecutors wanted the details under wraps and the Judge donated to Hastert's campaigns on multiple occasions, was there any doubt this would happen?
*Stay tuned to BoilingFrogsPost.com and CorbettReport.com for more details about the case, what really happened and what it really means.

A scandal too deep, too dark, and covers too many people from both sides of the political aisle for it to ever proceed in public

Three FBI Field Offices, Four Agents, One Linguist, and A Bucket Full of Dirties … Literally Right & Left

The Recent Revelations & Indictment: “Only the Tip of the Iceberg”

How would you like to see 3 or 4 of these billboards up along the 99 between Fresno and Merced?The conservative building trades unions have been handing out checks as usual. In the last cycle their biggest contributions went to 5 conservative Democrats:

Yesterday the House defeated the Progressive Caucus's People's Budget... again. It was a budget put together as a roadmap to do the job of uplifting ordinary American working families-- and doing so in a fiscally responsible manner. Conservatives easily beat it back without breaking a sweat, 96 to 244.

Although unions have been maligned, denigrated and marginalized by Big Business and their conservative political allies and by the right-wing propaganda machine, the contributions unions have made to the lives of ordinary working men and women are profound and undeniable. From abolishing child labor laws to pushing for Social Security, Medicare, health and safety standards and the minimum wage-- not to mention the whole concept of the weekend!-- unions have been in the forefront of every battle between democracy and the nefarious forces of plutocracy.

Despite the hairdo, Susanne Atanus is not from EMILY's ListEvery good progressive deserves their own opponent like Susanne Atanus. Recall that last January we had a chuckle over the crackpots running against Jan Schakowsky in her Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka, Des Plaines, Arlington Heights district (IL-09).

Today's Illinois Republican Party… very sadAny list of the most effective and dedicated progressives in Congress wouldn't be complete without 8 term Chicagoland icon Jan Schakowsky.