I think this new ad is effective in showing the fact that the Republican Party is deep in the pocket of Wall Street and that they are standing with them and against average Americans by trying to block Wall Street Reform. This reform will help protect the economy from another massive September 2008 like failure [...]

#1 End the bailouts by forcing big financial companies to put aside money now, so if there’s another AIG-like disaster, taxpayers won’t be on the hook. We’ll use the big banks’ own money to shut them down. #2 Protect consumers by creating an independent watchdog that would finally stop credit card companies, mortgage brokers, and [...]

In a new CNN poll President Obama leads each of the top four Republican candidates for 2012 (results on the poll for the Republican primary below) by at least 8% points. Obama 53%, Mitt Romney 45% Obama 54%, Mike Huckabee 45% Obama 55%, Sarah Palin 42% Obama 55%, Newt Gingrich 43% Each head to head [...]

Just watch this video. Jon Stewart and the folks at the The Daily Show show how absurd the Fox News/Sarah Palin/Newt Gingrich response to President Obama’s new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons really is. They are basically freaking out about something that their own hero (Ronald Reagan) did in the 1980s while simultaneously [...]

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Today, as President Obama signed health care reform into law, a new opinion poll was released which was taken yesterday (the first full day after health care reform passed the House) and the results are good news for President Obama and the Democrats. Despite all of the claims from the Republicans that a majority of [...]

Update: I’ve set up this ActBlue fundraising page to donate to the opponents of 20 of these 21 (I left off MI-3 so it would only be districts where Obama won by at least 4%.) Following up on my previous posts today, this is a list of 21 Republican House seats that the Democrats may [...]

As I wrote in my last post, there are (or were as of last year, I don’t have an updated number based on retirees etc) 37 House Republicans from districts where Obama won the ’08 vote. All of these Republicans (just like all other Republicans) voted against health care reform. From this post over at [...]

It seems we’re always hearing about the “blue dog” Democrats who are often from the south in districts where John McCain won in 2008. Most recently we’ve heard about how hard a vote for health care reform is for them. But why do we never hear about the 37 Republican House members who are from [...]

1. Once reform is fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured. 2. Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions—or to drop coverage when people become sick. 3. Just like members of Congress, individuals and small [...]