Blogging for the 99% and the preservation of our Democracy against the Corporatists and the Citizens United ruling.
It’s so hilarious to listen to the pundits stressing out over the fact that there is not one single set of demands from the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well, I remember the Tea Party, and I have kept the photos of those marches displayed in online reporting on the Tea Party gatherings.
While the pundits remember the Tea Party after it was fully established, the Tea Party wasn’t exactly... 
In Salon.com, Jonathan Bernstein put forth the usual set of excuses given by all Obama supporters who will not consider reality as part of their opinion-making process. He grants that Obama may have not been very effective, but it is because his position as President is inherently weak:
What that means is that while the president’s overall influence is certainly far greater than that of a House... 
When the markets closed after news of the debt deal signing, the Dow Jones had dropped 265.87 points, or 2.19 percent, the biggest sell off in two years. This followed Boehner’s boasting that he got 98% of what he wanted in the negotiations. I don’t doubt it at all.
The market today accurately predicts the state of the economy six months from now. Why? Is the stock market prescient?... 
Once upon a time, there was a Presidential candidate that ran on “Change”, and promised that if workers rights to collectively bargain were ever threatened, he would grab some comfortable shoes and join the workers on the picket line as the President of the United States.
A fairy tale, right? We have a huge crisis in Wisconsin with a right-wing, Koch Industries tool in Governor Walker trying... 
Yes, it’s a snow day here in Wisconsin, but a “Winter Storm Warning” should have been declared the moment that Scott Walker took office. His first acts were to take a budget surplus and give away so much to his wealthy corporate supporters, that a budget deficit existed. Even this deficit did not rise to the level of a mandated “Budget Repair Bill”, but wrapping himself in... 