Above Graphic: h/t CrooksAndLiars.com. The Associated Press reports, Sinema’s shift: ‘Prada socialist’ to corporate donor magnet: Twenty years ago, a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council named Kyrsten Sinema likened raising campaign cash to “bribery.” Now a first-term senator from Arizona, she no longer has such qualms. Once a self-styled “Prada socialist” … Read more
“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde. Senator Joe Manchin is a cynical self-interested politician. He is trying to preserve his federal coal subsidies which make him wealthy, while at the same time denying American families, in particular America’s children, the basic assistance they need. And he … Read more
On a historic day for the American People and the United States, President Joe Biden, flanked by 800 guests of both major political parties, signed the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. As many Democrats have remarked: infrastructure week has finally come. Joe Biden is the master of the art of the deal. The Bipartisan Infrastructure … Read more
The Associated Press reports, White House confident Biden’s bill will pass House this week: President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser expressed confidence Sunday that the White House’s $1.85 trillion domestic policy package will quickly pass the House this week and said approval couldn’t come at a more urgent time as prices of consumer goods spike. … Read more
Neil Irwin recently wrote at the New York Times, Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs. They Also Think the Economy Is Awful. Americans are, by many measures, in a better financial position than they have been in many years. They also believe the economy is in terrible shape. This is the great contradiction that … Read more