There’s a new grassroots movement brewing: The Coffee Party. This movement is an adult alternative to the childish tea parties ( “tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends.” ) How the Coffee Party differs from the Tea Party: + Solution oriented, not blame oriented. + A true grassroots movement rather than an “astroturf” [...]

Go to MoveOn.org to get contact information for your Senators so that you can ask them to support the public option through reconciliation. We live in a democracy and that means we should only need 51 votes out of 101 (Vice President Joe Biden is the tie breaking vote) in order to pass legislation. The [...]

Next Wednesday (February 24th) there will be a “Virtual March on Washington” for Health Care Reform. Blue Cross recently increased premiums by 39% in California despite the fact that Blue Cross made $4.7 billion in profit last year. If that doesn’t make it obvious why we need health care reform then I guess you have [...]

It’s sad to see so many people buying into the lies of the Republican party (and at this point it’s become clear to anyone following what’s going on that everything the Republicans say is a lie – they only care about hurting Obama politically, not about helping the country.) But within that sadness there is [...]

Last night Sarah Palin gave a speech and took part in a scripted Q & A (a far cry from the impressive Q & A President Obama had with the Republicans last week) at a “Tea Party Convention” in Nashville, Tennessee. She gave a disastrous performance that is made even more pathetic by the fact [...]

If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. It’s President Obama’s question and answer session with the Republican obstructionists in congress at a GOP retreat: Obama refuted every single Republican talking point with reason & facts. All of the Republican talking points are either outright lies or distortions of fact. This becomes obvious when [...]