Last cycle we talked a lot about how the DCCC adamantly refused to even recognize the campaign against John Boehner by a valiant young progressive Democratic veteran, Justin Coussoule. They would go out of their way to invite every Democrat running for... »
If you've been reading this blog lately you probably have come to the conclusion that we were more than a little obsessed with defeating corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden in northeast Pennsylvania, where I used to live. Holden was gerrymandered into the dist... »
Today Disney is releasing Chimpanzee, Earth Day. Yesterday we asked some of the Blue America candidates to tell us what Earth Day means to them. Let me pick that up with a short post from Ken Aden, who's running in a pretty red-leaning district in nort... »
by Steve Smith Under Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) federal budget plan, each millionaire would receive a tax cut of about $187,000. And when it comes to Ryan and his GOP cronies in Congress like Rep. Dan Lungren, that fat tax giveaway to the wealthy comes at... »
Some say Romney wants someone less controversial and less tarred by the GOP effort to end Medicare and prosecute the vicious class war they've been waging against working families-- some nebbish like Rob Portman or Mitch Daniels-- both architects of th... »
Did you listen to the slick presentation of the Republican electoral campaign after the Romney wins in DC, Maryland and Wisconsin Tuesday night? First Paul Ryan, presumably now the front-runner for the VP nomination, and then Romney himself. It was jus... »
Last month Alan Grayson wrote a note called "The Myths That Are Killing Us"-- the hard myths that no Republicans, and very few Democrats, ever challenge. this was his list: 1. The Government can't create jobs. (Tell that to FDR, who created four millio... »
Democrats to use Ryan plan against GOP in elections »
