Elizabeth Warren on Morning Joe. Great job! A real Democrat! You should watch. My attempt at embedding the video did not work (problem is with MSNBC, I think), but here's the link. [Here's the embed. -ed.] Visit msnbc.com for … [Read more...]

I'm thinking that people are getting tired of my seemingly tinfoil-hatted posts on Obama's war on Social Security, but here goes... Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts--Not GOP "We've got to educate the American people at … [Read more...]

Social Security has zero fiscal problems - the claim that it will need to reduce payments by 20% in 26 years is based on assuming that the economy will soon get much worse, and stay that way for good. Social Security has zero to do with … [Read more...]

You may have been reading about the current proposals to switch Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to be based on "chained CPI".  Perhaps you've read things like "oh, that's less than a 1% cut - no big deal". Well, what … [Read more...]

I called Kerry's, Brown's, and Frank's offices today to express my displeasure with the brewing cuts to Social Security.  It took five minutes while I was driving to work, and I felt like I did my civic duty for the day.  These cuts, as far … [Read more...]

A couple of months ago, I created a post on the national board DemocraticUnderground that made a bit of noise: Social Security: the little secret that's fooling even most DUers. Long story short, I ended up being interviewed on … [Read more...]

From TalkingPointsMemo: On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated long-term budget forecast, which looked surprisingly like the previous version of its long-term budget forecast. It showed, as one might expect, … [Read more...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/stocks-socialized-us-countries-reagan_n_882270.html Ahem: American traders aren't likely to take kindly to the suggestion that big government might be good for the stock market. But data from … [Read more...]

I was just reading how Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is calling on Obama and the Republican Party to get moving to the right, and to stop bowing to pressure from the Left. Start moving to the right? We're already so far to the right that I … [Read more...]

Romney's no dope.  He knows that he can't win over with the more-crazy wing of the Republican Party, so he's tacking left in the hope of scooping up the less-crazy wing.  If he succeeds, things may not go well for Obama, or for us. Real … [Read more...]