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By: 7 Exciting, Inspiring – and Overlooked – Lessons From the “99 Percent” Election | progressivenetwork

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:57:55 +0000

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By: Weldon Berger

Weldon Berger — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:33:46 +0000

Tammy Baldwin deserves prominent mention here. Together with Sanders and a few others –possibly Brown, probably not Kaine, one hopes Warren — she’ll be at the heart of any progressive resistance movement that develops in the Senate.

Despite being the best candidate willing to run, Romney is the worst GOP nominee in my lifetime and at the least since Alf Landon, who was a much better person. Absent the billions, the election would have been a laugher; someone with more skills at running what I think I shall call a completely post-modern campaign might have won.

Meanwhile, the President apparently still wants his Grand Bargain, Emanuel Cleaver’s Satan Sandwich, before the end of the year, and we’re reliant on a slender reed in Harry to keep him from getting that done.

So socially, the election was a harbinger of good things to come. In terms of who owns what and whom, we’re about where we started.

By: BOB

BOB — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:04:13 +0000

This should be great for the country if the Republican members of Congress will try to do something besides make the President appear to be a failure.

By: grigor

grigor — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:41:14 +0000

Dream on, Mr. Eskow.

By: DHFabian

DHFabian — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:31:52 +0000

Interestingly, our biggest task has been that of countering the Dem Party leadership and “progressive” media that worked so hard to make the discussion through the campaign year to be all about, exclusively about, the better off, those still in the middle class. When it reached the point of 24/7 middle class pandering, so many who voted in 2008 said, “To hell with it.” You want to rebuild the middle class? Out of what? Thin air? We had wiped out upward class mobility, cut the rungs off of the ladder out of poverty. So, the poll numbers remained painfully close. Then Bill “Kill the New Deal and Give Us NAFTA” Clinton was brought in, hailed by the “liberal” media as a hero, and the poll numbers slipped, much to the puzzlement of our favorite pundits. Finally, as election day neared, President Obama stood up and said that no, actually, it isn’t all about, only about, the middle class. And indeed, it can’t be. We need to look at those policies that were in place from WWll until the Reagan administration — the policies that created the massive, highly productive middle class that we used to have.

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:13:42 +0000

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By: clarence swinney

clarence swinney — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:40:43 +0000

OECD NATION RANKINGS
#1 Percent of workers in low pay jobs
#2-Least tax on corporations
#3-Least taxed below Chile and Mexico
#4-Inequality
third world? no America!