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Fort Hood Shootings

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-05T21:52:19-08:00

I'm waiting and seeing. I see that right-wing blogs are in an intense anti-Muslim hate frenzy. This is a terrible tragedy.

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Modify Filibuster

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-05T08:25:59-08:00

Republicans are blocking everything, Dems seem unable to do anything. Here is a really good idea for changing the rules. Of course, the weak Dem leadership won' want to rock the boat. They prefer "bipartisanship" with extremists over actually getting things done for the people.

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Business For Clean Energy

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-04T10:26:08-08:00

ABCE: American Businesses For Clean Energy American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) is a forum for leading U.S. businesses to register their support for swift Congressional action on clean energy and climate legislation.* The ABCE mission is simple: Demonstrate large and small business...

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Digby Digby

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-04T10:09:38-08:00

Digny writes about The Most Important Election In The History Of The World | OurFuture.org

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Act Like Democrats

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-04T10:05:22-08:00

This post originally appeared at Speak Out California. There are a few lessons to take away from last night's elections. The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your base...

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Dems Didn't Vote

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-04T07:53:47-08:00

The other day I had a post, Creigh Deeds Tells Dems Not To Vote. Well, they didn't. People are dying because of the health care situation. Get off your butts and pass a good health care bill, and then start doing things that inspire Democrats to show up and vote. Like the Employee Free Choice...

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Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-04T07:29:35-08:00

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how...

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Working At The Polls

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-03T15:36:17-08:00

I am working at the polls today. Not a single voter yet... Update - 8:45am - still no voters. Not one. Update - We had a flurry of two voters at around 9:15am. Update - 3:30pm - nine voters so far today. A few people dropped off their absentee ballots. Final Update - Total of 12 voters...

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One Year Since Election

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-03T09:39:34-08:00

Of course President Obama hasn't been in office for a year, but everyone seems to be doing "first year" wrapups because the election was a year ago... So here is mine. I'll have a longer post on "signals" later. Everyone is disappointed. It seems like nothing has changed at all. Of course a...

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Fight Clean Energy Smears

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-03T08:09:44-08:00

Take a look at Fight Clean Energy Smears! The site looks at the smears and front groups that are working to keep good climate policy from passing.

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Corporate Money In Elections -- What To Expect

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-02T10:25:20-08:00

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. The Supreme Court may decide as soon as tomorrow on the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case involving a corporate-funded anti-Hillary smear ad. It is likely...

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Today Is The Grayson Money-Bomb

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-02T07:57:19-08:00

Reward Good Behavior:

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Today's Bubble Post -- Fed Blowing Up HUGE Asset Bubble

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-02T07:37:33-08:00

This is an important read, to understand the bug crash that is building up: Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust, Since March there has been a massive rally in all sorts of risky assets – equities, oil, energy and commodity prices – a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade credit...

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Rich-Guy Populism -- Glenn Beck

Dave Johnson — 2009-11-02T06:57:02-08:00

Over at Commonweal Institute, Brad Reed has a great post: Glenn Beck Peddles Populism for Rich Guys, The irony is that Beck is only really opposed to big government when Republicans aren’t controlling it. For instance, he has no issues with allowing the government to torture prisoners and is...

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Wall Street Pukes On Our Shoes

Dave Johnson — 2009-10-29T12:24:03-08:00

At the New Economy Conference, Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers just said that deregulating Wall Street was like leaving a 3 year old in a candy store unsupervised for a day. When you come back the kid is stuffed full of candy, candy falling out of the pockets -- but when you are driving home...

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