Eugene Scalia, Justice Antonin Scalia's Son, Hired By Wall Street To Fight Dodd-Frank Rule

Eugene Scalia, Justice Antonin Scalia's Son, Hired By Wall Street To Fight Dodd-Frank Rule

The Twinkie Manifesto - NYTimes.com

Which brings us back to the nostalgia thing.

There are, let’s face it, some people in our political life who pine for the days when minorities and women knew their place, gays stayed firmly in the closet and congressmen asked, “Are you now or have you ever been?” The rest of us, however, are very glad those days are gone. We are, morally, a much better nation than we were. Oh, and the food has improved a lot, too.

Along the way, however, we’ve forgotten something important — namely, that economic justice and economic growth aren’t incompatible. America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again.

The Twinkie Manifesto - NYTimes.com

How Deficit Hawks Took Over The Country - Business Insider

But more jobs and growth will help reduce the deficit. With more jobs and faster growth, the deficit will shrink as a proportion of the overall economy. Recall the 1990s when the Clinton administration balanced the budget ahead of the schedule it had set with Congress because of faster job growth than anyone expected — bringing in more tax revenues than anyone had forecast. Europe offers the same lesson in reverse: Their deficits are ballooning because their austerity policies have caused their economies to sink.



How Deficit Hawks Took Over The Country - Business Insider

Women Power: A record-breaking moment for women in the U.S. Senate - The Washington Post

Women Power: A record-breaking moment for women in the U.S. Senate - The Washington Post

Winners and losers from Election 2012

Winners and losers from Election 2012

The President's Done a Lot! Here Are More Than 200 Obama First Term Accomplishments, With Citations! (The PCTC Blog )

The President's Done a Lot! Here Are More Than 200 Obama First Term Accomplishments, With Citations! (The PCTC Blog )

A Case Study of Republicans vs. Democrats on FEMA | Mother Jones

Mitt Romney apparently still thinks that downsizing and privatizing the functions of FEMA is a good idea. After all, everyone knows that federal bureaucracies are cesspools of incompetence.
Except....it turns out that they're only cesspools of incompetence during certain eras. See if you can spot the trend here:

A Case Study of Republicans vs. Democrats on FEMA | Mother Jones