Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | October 24, 2008 We’ve heard a lot from conservatives lately about how progressives are seeking to redistribute wealth with their “socialist” tax policies. But so far this critique doesn’t seem to be getting far with the public. There’s a good reason for this: The public actually agrees [...]
Archive for October 24th, 2008
24 Oct
Think Again: The Invisible Battle Over Posse Comitatus
Center for American Progress A largely silent battle has been fought over the president’s ability to deploy military troops in the United States. Overturning longstanding statues limiting this ability has implications for martial law. By Eric Alterman, George Zornick | October 23, 2008 My late friend and mentor I.F. Stone spent his career devouring [...]
24 Oct
Redistributing To The Rich
ECONOMY Redistributing To The Rich Seizing on comments Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made to “Joe the Plumber,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) campaign has argued that Obama’s economic policies would redistribute the wealth of hard working Americans and provide “just another government giveaway to others.” ”The redistribution of wealth is the last thing America needs right now. [...]
24 Oct
As an Issue, Taxes Favor Obama
Polls Lean Toward Democrat on a Traditional GOP Strength By Michael Abramowitz and Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, October 24, 2008; Page A02 SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 23 — In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, John McCain has turned to an argument that has served Republicans well in recent history, using stump [...]
24 Oct
McCain, Obama, Biden, and JFK
Kennedy and Khrushchev, Vienna, June 1961. “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America…Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated [...]
24 Oct
Greenspan Says He Was Wrong On Regulation
“I made a mistake,” Greenspan said, “in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”
24 Oct
Something About Sarah
By Kathleen Parker Friday, October 24, 2008; Page A19 My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: “I’m sexually attracted to her. I don’t care that she knows nothing.” Finally, writer Robert Draper closed the file on the Sarah Palin mystery with a devastating article in [...]
24 Oct
Iraq, Afghanistan and the Treatment of Veterans — Voter Guide
AlterNet. Posted October 17, 2008. See how the candidates compare on the occupation of Iraq, the use of mercenaries in war and other issues in the so-called War on Terror. The current financial crisis, which experts are roundly describing as a calamity of unprecedented proportions, has convinced most voters that the economy is the most [...]
24 Oct
Progressives Battle Conservative Ideologues to Provide Americans Real Economic Relief
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted October 24, 2008. For a tenth of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we could help rescue the “nuts and bolts” economy in which most Americans work and live. There’s a fight brewing between the conservative movement’s bitter dead-enders — ideologues clinging desperately to their discredited [...]
24 Oct
Democratic victory is looking likely
No new ideas. Not even fresh rhetoric. Besides name-calling and attacks over purportedly shady associates, it has been all about promising no new taxes, decrying government waste and demonizing anyone who dares speak of tax fairness for those of lesser means.
24 Oct
The Making (and Remaking) of McCain
MAGAZINE PREVIEW This article will appear in this Sunday’s Times Magazine. Lauren Greenfield/VII, for The New York Times STUMPED SPEECH Sarah Palin and John McCain at the Delaware County Courthouse in Media, Pa., on Sept. 22. As late as June, one aide said, the campaign could not agree on an answer to the question ‘‘Why [...]
24 Oct
Friday Senate Line: Democrats Creep Closer to 60
washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog Democrats’ chances at reaching 60 seats in the Senate depend largely on how these four senators — Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) — fare on Nov. 4. Senate Democrats’ hopes of winning the 60 seats next month — a mark that would hand them [...]
