A very interesting story is developing in Wisconsin with new Tea Party Republican Governor Scott Walker creating a fake budget shortfall in order to give himself an excuse to take away the rights of state workers and a lot of folks deciding they aren’t going to take it lying down. Read: 25,000 protesting in Wisconsin. [...]

As bad as the unemployment problem in the US is right now, it’d probably be at least 1.6 million jobs worse if McCain/Palin had won last November. The Republican approach to fixing economic problems is basically this: “Do nothing and eventually the market will correct itself.” This is exactly what Republican Herbert Hoover did from [...]

A new LA Times/Bloomberg poll gives Barack Obama a 48% to 33% national lead over John McCain when Bob Barr & Ralph Nader are included in the polling. Perhaps even more telling of McCain’s problem is that even among the voters who are planning on voting for McCain there is not much enthusiasm for the [...]