2 NJ pols who play on the same team-- the Wall Street teamThere are two excellent candidates running for what was Frank Lautenberg's New Jersey Senate seat: progressive congressman Frank Pallone and progressive congressman Rush Holt. Holt's career-long Progressive crucial vote score is the best of any New Jersey congressman: 91.88. For 2013 his score is 100, a distinction shared by only 15 Members.
You know, I always call it "the Republican Party War Against Women" but it would be more accurate to term it a "conservative" war against women, since the fear and hatred of women and the whole sick patriarchal thing is a bedrock of conservatism as we've been seeing in the reports about honor killings and violence against women around the world, always at the hand
Frank Lautenberg died Sunday night. He was, at 89 the oldest member of the Senate, had been ill for a long time and his death doesn't surprise many. Now Obama's BBF, Gov. Chris Christie gets to appoint a successor. Lautenberg was a dependable progressive across the board. His ProgressivePunch crucial vote score was 94.05, just between Barbara Boxer and Tammy Baldwin.
The senator in 2010by KenI know it's in terrible taste, but instead of paying tribute to New Jersey's senior senator, who died today of viral pneumonia at 89, I'm going to jump to the political aftermath. I'm afraid I can offer only two justifications:(1) I don't know quite what to say about the senator -- at least nothing that DWT readers don't all know. At a time when it becomes harder and harder to identify authentic liberals in the U.S.
Sorry, Senator Buono... boys onlyYesterday, President Obama officially endorsed Ed Markey for the Senate seat that John Kerry gave up to become Secretary of State. "Ed has a strong record of helping businesses create jobs and making sure that middle class families get ahead," said the President about a congressman who is considerably more progressive than he himself ever was.
Last year Obama beat Romney in New Jersey 2,117,175 (58%) to 1,472,709 (41%). In 2008 he had beaten McCain with 57%. Yesterday Obama supporters in the Beltway media were touting how the Republican plans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act could well backfire on GOP governors and legislators who are obstructing it.
"It's official: Governor Christie is a card carrying member of the Flat Earth Society. We know that climate change is causing more severe weather, like Hurricane Sandy. But Governor Christie ignores overwhelming scientific evidence in favor of right-wing ideology. It's no surprise coming from a governor who's rolled back environmental protections, defunded investment in clean energy and withdrawn our state from a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
As we saw last night, Scott Garrett is a Wall Street shill and one of the most extremist Republicans left in the Northeast.
