Will you pick up the gauntlet, Mr. President, and make the case for why we must pass an amendment to strike down Citizens United? It will give you a strong foundation for your strategy to win in November.
Knowing women have an advantage in the areas of perceived honest and ethics, opponents try to knock female candidates off their political pedestals by launching negative attacks early in their campaigns.
Perhaps many reading this will consider me a relic to place so much weight on accuracy. If so, I suppose it's an occupational hazard as a genealogist's worth is measured largely in credibility, but what do you think?
This week, America's sports pages took on a much darker tone as the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial got underway and Lance Armstrong was hit with yet another round of doping allegations. Meanwhile, Jamie Dimon's Senate visit left both Democratic and Republican senators looking foolish. On the Democratic side, an ill-prepared Jeff Merkley told Dimon he wouldn't have a job if the government hadn't bailed out his bank with TARP funds -- a claim Dimon swatted away as "factually wrong." On the GOP side, Senators Jim DeMint and Bob Corker used the opportunity to rail against ineffective regulation they've dedicated themselves to making ineffective. Jon Stewart summed up the political jujitsu perfectly: "It must be fun to be a Republican senator... you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining that the sh*t you just broke doesn't work." It all made you long for Elizabeth Warren as Dimon's cross-examiner.
Arianna appeared on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' alongside Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, to discuss JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's appearance ...
The actual politics of Massachusetts defy conventional wisdom and create greater shades of gray. It's in these areas that Scott Brown may well find the key to his re-election.
With Republicans running Congress, the president having angered much of the left and Governor Scott Walker surviving last week's Wisconsin recall, Netroots could have been really depressing.
Much of the conversation around the activist, OWS, foreclosure defense community invariably gets to, "How do they sleep at night?" I'm pretty sure they sleep very well. Why wouldn't they?
If the recall vote in Wisconsin is any hint of what is to come in the next few months, caveat emptor will be the catch phrase of the marketplace and government will go from being our protector to being a supplicant of the one tenth of one percent.
Karl Rove's protégé, Jim Burnett, is trying to convince Massachusetts voters that a non-controversy is so important that they should vote against their better interests.
We need more teachers -- not just in the classroom, but in Congress.
Scott Brown has carefully cultivated a nice-guy image. For many Massachusetts voters, that's all they know about Brown: he seems like a nice guy. But what few people know is that Brown relies heavily on Karl Rove-style tactics and practitioners of his slash-and-burn politics.
The question isn't whether we need a central bank: We do. The question is, Why is it dominated by the people who have already ruined the economy once -- and who have a clear conflict of interest?
My own heritage is a concrete example of what bigotry in hand with indifference to justice can do to a family history.
A wrap-up of stories and posts you might have missed or overlooked -- the ones below the fold.
Not for the first time, Elizabeth Warren has spoken a simple truth, one that ought to be heeded: Jamie Dimon must surrender his seat on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.