Last December, when President Obama made a deal with Republicans to continue the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, I said there was no shared pain in the agreement. I called it the easy way out for everybody. And I emphasized it’s not fiscally responsible in addressing the deficit, the biggest long-term threat to [...]
I’d like to introduce you to my mom, Dee. As a speech pathologist with the Milwaukee Public Schools, she helps kids learn how to talk. Sometimes these kids struggle because of a birth defect, sometimes it’s because the kids have special developmental needs. In more than 35 years, my mom’s helped over 700 kids, devoting [...]
Either House Majority Leader Eric Cantor doesn’t understand how Social Security works or he doesn’t care. Just hours after President Obama said that Social Security cuts and privatization are off the table, Cantor said that Social Security had to be cut to balance the budget. But here’s the thing: Social Security does not and never [...]
America is a community. We look out for each other as a nation. We build schools for our children, fund police for our safety and provide a secure retirement for our grandparents. We don’t toss aside our seniors when they need our help the most. Instead, each generation of American workers invests in the Social [...]
We’ve come a long way together over the years. We’ve had many victories and our share of setbacks. The next few years aren’t going to be easy either. It’s going to be a fight to stop right-wing Republicans from rolling back progress and forcing gridlock in Congress. We’ll need to work harder than ever to [...]
Although I don’t think Sarah Palin or Glen Beck or Michelle Bachmann are directly responsible for the disaster in Tucson, I do think their vitriol contributes to the angst of the country. As DFA-MC works on messaging for the next election, I hope we will set the example of civility for Arizona and the USA. [...]
As we celebrate the passage of the Health Insurance Reform Bill we have to cry for Arizona. The Republicans in the Arizona Legislature have done everything they could to send Arizona down the wrong track. They cut Education and then cut education again both K-12 and Higher Education and then they cut healthcare. About 47,000 [...]
We Americans put our trust in the Democratic Party in the 2008 election. What has happened between then and now that has caused so many new supporters to sit out elections and others to vote with another Party? An exit poll taken by Research 2000 at the Massachusetts election shows that the election was not [...]
They say that they are pro life and yet they are pro war. They say that government should not intrude into their lives. But, they want government to intrude into your bedroom. They claim to be Christians, followers of Jesus who championed the poor; yet they champion the rich and demean the poor. They promote [...]
Phoenix voters will be asked to vote for continuing improvements in their parks and mountain preserves, without an increase in taxes. The initiative, known as the Phoenix Parks and Preserves Initiative (PPPI), will be Proposition A in the city election on Tuesday, May 20. It will be paid for by extending the 0.1 % sales [...]
