- Public rejects GOP on debt, blames economy on Bush
- Getting to Crazy--"So there has been no pressure on the G.O.P. to show any kind of responsibility, or even rationality — and sure enough, it has gone off the deep end. If you’re surprised, that means that you were part of the problem." NYT
- GOP Demand Obama Protect Seniors From Default, Won’t Name What To Cut Instead--They're desperate not to have the seniors turn on them again.
- Yes, I'll dare call it treason: The Republican Party no longer has its country's best interests at heart - and Americans suffer as a result.
- Dicing with debt and the future: The Theory of Inevitable Compromise, and why it is probably wrong
- Top Dems To Cantor: Get Real Or Go Home--Cantor is America's "most dangerous whiner".
- "McConnell is arguing that the true conservative position in this debate is to favor whichever policy is likeliest to lead to Obama's defeat in 2012."
- Sen. Al Franken shreds the Republican economic theory
- GOP Senator: Maybe We Shouldn't Have Tied Debt Vote To Deficit Deal
- Graham: GOP has no one 'to blame but ourselves'--"South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham conceded Wednesday that he and his fellow Republicans are now eating their own words as they try to convince the country they are working to stave off a federal default."
- ALEC Exposed--"It is a worrisome marriage of corporations and politicians, which seems to normalize a kind of corruption of the legislative process -- of the democratic process--in a nation of free people where the government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people, not the corporations."
- Lobbyists are overtaking Congress: Since the GOP takeover, the number of lobbyists in congressional staff positions has more than doubled--Not only are corporations writing the bills, they're getting people inside. Salon
- Citigroup attempts to disappear its Plutonomy Report #2
- Supremely Un-American--They've been siding with corporations more often than ever.
- Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaining Traction
- Goldman Sachs Is Firing Employees In The US So It Can Hire 1,000 In Singapore
- Cisco To Shed 10,000 Jobs While Asking For Giant Corporate Tax Break
- Caterpillar Accused of Demoting Executive Discovering $2 Billion Tax Dodge
- AP Exclusive: Nike faces new worker abuse claims--"Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, acknowledges that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but says there was little it could do to stop it."
- Pinto Madness--Way back in the 70s, Ford calculated the cost of a human life to gauge whether it was financially feasible not to recall their defective cars.
