Texas needs a change. Texas governor Rick Perry has played politics with policies that have material impact on real middle class Texan’s lives. As a Texan with a wife with a pre-existing condition, I was appalled that he refused the the Healthcare Reform funds for the high risk healthcare pool. He refused the stimulus fund […]

I received this positive email Obama narrative from my mother a few minutes ago. It is the first positive Obama email I’ve received in a while. I decided to find the original blog entry and repost, references Frank Schaeffer’s blog site. This narrative is a bit dated in that more legislation positive to the middleclass […]

  When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to counter by accusing Republicans of wanting to repeal a law that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. According to Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, that’s exactly right. People with pre-existing conditions, he explains are like houses that have already burned down. "It […]

  OBAMA WARNS OF ‘CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF OUR DEMOCRACY’…. We talked earlier this week about far-right interest groups collecting millions for attack ads, all in support of Republican candidates, and financed through shadowy groups awash in undisclosed donations. The NYT raised the specter of "a relatively small cadre of deep-pocketed donors, unknown to the general […]

Fox News has filed an unusual lawsuit against the Democratic nominee for Senate in Missouri, Robin Carnahan, over a campaign ad that uses video from “Fox News Sunday” to take a shot at her Republican opponent, Rep. Roy Blunt. In the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., Fox contends that […]

It is great that WSJ is given some time to this issue now. Most Americans already new they were falling behind. Unfortunately there is nothing on the immediate horizon that will take the middleclass back to a growing path because for all practical purposes the titans of finance have unpatriotically sold out our country in […]

NEW VIDEO: Rick Perry’s budget denial Incumbent ignores reality, hides the truth about $18 billion hole HOUSTON — A new video released by the Bill White for Texas campaign today highlights Rick Perry’s budget denial and attempts to hide the truth about the state’s budget crisis until after the election. The video is available at: […]

Characterizing Rachel Maddow as intolerant is silly. Rachel is not intolerant she is generally well researched unlike most “journalists”. Though she was channeling Michael Moore when she called President Clinton the best Republican since Abraham Lincoln. For the uninformed, that was a mild compliment. It was a way of calling him a centrist and not […]

Markos Moulitsas of the DailyKos will find this article a corroboration of his new book American Taliban. After all the same lack of tolerance displayed by the Taliban is displayed by O’Donnell. Change Christian to Muslim and  the similarity is undeniable. It is clear she lacks the intellect to be a Senator. That she cannot […]

This report is disheartening not because it so devastating to American families but because the data shows how badly our economic system has performed for middleclass Americans for the last 30 years. That employers no longer able or willing to provide health insurance & that had our safety net not been there so many millions […]