Re: David Sirota: GOP: Recession’s Foreclosure Victims “Want a Homeless Life” After their anti-tax zealotry left their city in the budgetary lurch, Colorado Springs Republicans have slashed their community’s social services to the bone. We’re talking big cuts to police, firefighters, park maintenance, public transportation – even turning off the city’s streetlights (except, of course, [...]
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Could This be Where It All Begins?
The Progress Report wrote: Beyond Petroleum From: The Progress Report [progress@americanprogressaction.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:40 AM To: tom@tomchambless.com Subject: Beyond Petroleum FIGHTING THE OIL ADDICTION: The BP blowout is changing the politics of oil in this country, with polls finding that “Americans have turned far less supportive of increased drilling for oil and [...]

An Outline of Republican Party Troubles for November
Re: Lincoln Mitchell: The Republican Midterm Dilemma, Lincoln Mitchell, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, as posted in The Huffington Post, May 17, 2010 01:55 PM After the Democratic Party took back control of congress in 2006, the 2008 presidential election emerged not just as an opportunity, but also as a test for the Democrats. The 2006 [...]