According to this report on MSNBC (via NY Times) President Obama has ruled out any compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. The President is proposing extending tax cuts for couples making less than $250,000 and single filers making less than $200,000 while letting the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire [...]

NY Times: Republicans are tricking homeless people into voting for 3rd parties to siphon away votes from Democrats AlterNet: Who is pulling Glenn Beck’s strings? Christian Science Monitor: Restoring Truthiness. Could spoof of Glenn Beck rally really happen? Griper Blade: There are big differences between the parties. VOTE Democratic. Political Correction: Five ways a “Speaker [...]

In the Republicans are destroying our country category… CommonDreams.org: “Out Long National Nightmare Isn’t Over…. It’s Just Beginning.” In the “remember; Newt Gingrich is a sick bastard who should never get anywhere close to the White House” category… MSNBC: Even while leading the attack on President Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Newt Gingrich [...]

The Tea Party is anything but a grassroots movement. It is actually a billionaire-roots movement that has been funded from the get go by the Koch brothers. Who are the Koch brothers? They are two far right wing billionaires (with Bircher roots) who are among the richest people in the world. David and Charles Kochs [...]

For many months the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in the House & Senate have been trying to negotiate a bipartisan health care reform bill with the Republicans. Unfortunately the Republicans have shown time and time again they have no interest in fixing America’s health care system and seem intent instead on destroying health [...]

Media Matters makes the point that the mainstream media has been skewing the debate on health care reform by insinuating that the “public option” that President Obama supports is not popular with Americans and that the “public option” is the “liberal position” (it’s not, it is a compromise, the true liberal position is “single payer.”) [...]

The real solution to the health care problem in America isn’t a convoluted “co-op” scheme or even “the public option” (although that would be better than nothing) the real solution is obvious: Single Payer Health Care. What’s “single payer”? It’s a true universal health care program that would work basically like “Medicare for all.” And [...]

The new CBS/NY Times poll has Barack Obama ahead of John McCain nationally by a big margin: 53% to 39%. While this is likely to be somewhat of an outlier as it’s the largest lead Obama has in any national poll it should be noted that Obama also has a double digit lead in six [...]

John McCain has accepted $84 million of tax payer’s money to finance his campaign. Because of this he is not allowed to raise anymore money directly from people (since becoming the official Republican nominee.) Yet his campaign has been raising money through something called the McCain/Palin Compliance Fund. Read the NY Times story on how [...]

The scarier she becomes. Forget for a second her extreme lack of experience and instead focus on her positions and her history. Sarah Palin is a “wingnut” – an extreme far right wing politician who will appeal to no one but the Pat Robertson wing of the Republican party when her positions and her history [...]