Governor Scott Walker and his new team of criminal defense lawyers will be meeting with the Milwaukee County District Attorney soon to answer questions in a multifaceted "John Doe" probe being conducted by the DA into potentially illegal activities of Walker’s staff during the time he served as Milwaukee County Executive.
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OK. I'll admit it. Newt Gingrich got me on this one. I walked into the CPAC 2012 conference this morning with my guard down (first mistake), and picked up what I thought was up updated schedule of events for the main ballroom.
Then I read it.
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: For SOTU, Stand Up For Social Security
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So Perry is out of the race. What a coward. It's not as if it's just a matter of not throwing good money after bad. The election is in a couple of days. He obviously just couldn't face the humiliation of losing.
On paper he was the perfect anti-Romney and everyone expected him to make it a real race. But he was a flop from the very beginning, his poor showing in the debates and obvious lack of basic knowledge made him too much even for the neanderthals. Actually, I think that was his real problem --- on a subliminal level he just reminded everyone too much of George W. Bush and that particular personality type was just too uncomfortable even for the folks.
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Originally published at Capital Gains and Games.
There are five reasons why it was virtually inevitable the White House would make military spending an issue this year.
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Rick Perry’s latest “oops” moments are this Monday’s low-hanging fruit for bloggers, and by now it’s low-hanging fruit that’s seems thoroughly picked over. Looking back over the Republican campaign thus far, littered with what’s left of a bushel of front-runners whose campaigns ultimately withered on the vine, the dying gaffes of Perry’s candidacy seem like [...]
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(If the video doesn’t appear on your browser, it’s available here) Was on Current TV’s The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur the other day, appearing with the crew and participating in a “Power Panel” discussion with Glenn Greenwald and Paul Waldman. The Crooks and Liars team edited some of my comments into a [...]
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INTERVIEW Hear Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., talk about his push for defense spending cuts and the ability of the Occupy movement to influence the debate. Rep. Barney Frank is ratcheting up his longstanding push to reduce federal defense spending with a series of town hall events in his Massachusetts congressional district atarting this weekend. And [...]
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(Updated with new action items.) Disturbing developments in New York City. Mayor Mike Bloomberg just said he’s going to use the police to effectively end “Occupy Wall Street” Friday morning. In a transparent ploy, new rules were passed out this morning prohibiting tarps, sleeping bags and “lying down”—even as temperatures plummet. We must stand up [...]
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