Rick Perry claims he represents Texas values. But Perry’s Texas is different than our Texas. In Rick Perry’s Texas, state boards and agencies are pressured from the top to serve those who help the governor’s re-election. In our Texas, government will be the servant, not the master, and our customers will be ordinary Texans. In […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 29, 2010 NEW VIDEO: What do Rick Perry’s friends do for him? Anything to keep him in power, that’s fine by him HOUSTON — The Bill White for Texas campaign today released a web video highlighting the history of Rick Perry and Mike Toomey. Toomey, Perry’s close friend and former […]

Twisting arms, trading votes — unless 60 Senators vote YES this week, the first overhaul of our outdated financial laws since the Great Depression could go down in defeat. We didn’t get everything we wanted in the final negotiations – we lost the auto dealer loophole by just one vote. But we got a lot: […]

  Having just finishing Jonathan Alter’s "The Promise", these comments from Clinton almost knocked me of the chair.  If i had to bet today, i’m not sure i would put a lot of money on president Obama having another term – either because he’ll just say ‘the hell with it’ (Or Michelle will…, or simply […]

Senator McCain true to form does what Republicans have been doing for years, if there is no data to back your assertion simply create the data and assert it. Unfortunately the average American listening to a Senator would justifiably assume a renowned Senator would not outright lie. It is for this reason that lies like […]

The raw article that shows the effect of the tax cuts fiasco and its effects on our budget deficit going forward can be viewed at http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1811.  http://www.cbpp.org/… Why not pound this fact home over and over and over again. The very people that are calling the unemployed "funemployed" are enjoying the very same tax cuts […]

This illustrates the hypocrisy of those in the Tea Party and the GOP leadership. Corporate welfare has always cost the American taxpayer much more than the pittance  that’s given to those in need or even the small number of scourges who abuse the system. The reality is the system is abused much more by corporate […]

  Apparently this is officially the week the world discovers reporters have opinions, too. Hot on the heels of Dave Weigel’s resignation from WaPo over some leaked emails in which he expressed his dislike over certain aspects of the conservative movement comes this video of reporters getting caught on a hot mic making fun of […]

  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” […]

Advisory Media Missing the McChrystal Point 6/25/10 The media firestorm over the Rolling Stone profile (6/22/10) of General Stanley McChrystal mostly missed the real point of the article, which was a damning portrait of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Much of the media coverage stressed the criticism and insults hurled by McChrystal and his staff […]