Category: Politics As Usual

Obama signs bill restoring military death benefits

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So the people who die in our many military misadventures are somehow more sacred than the people whose kids are starving? The pregnant women who aren’t eating? Way to stand firm, Mr. President!

Obama signs law restoring US military death benefits (via AFP)

US President Barack Obama signed a measure into law reinstating US military death benefits to families of soldiers killed on duty that had been halted by the government shutdown. The Senate passed the mini funding bill by unanimous consent earlier in…

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NBC/WSJ Poll: Pretty much everybody hates Republicans

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Shocking NBC/WSJ poll: Shutdown decimates GOP as Obamacare popularity INCREASES (via The Moderate Voice)

The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is a virtual, brutal punch in the gut to the Republican Party. Not only does it show that by a whopping margin Americans blame the Republicans for the shutdown, but it shows that since the Tea Party Republicans…

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Will the Great Recession create the Newer Deal?

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Will the Great Recession Create the Newer Deal? (via LA Progressive)

Back about a decade or two, as polarization widened among America’s politicians and political activists, most analysts concluded from the initial flurry of research that the general public seemed exempt. Officeholders and activists were taking more…

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Between a rock and a hard place

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So even the Koch brothers are protesting they have nothing to do with the shutdown! Nothing to do with it? They only created and funded the Tea Party. Quite a little pickle they’ve put themselves and the rest of us in!

New AP Poll: Republicans blamed for shutdown as one in four GOPers support Tea Party (via The Moderate Voice)

A new Associated Press-GfK survey finds Republicans are being largely blamed for the shut down and contains a tidbit that underscores the ongoing problem for the GOP as talk about a “rebranding” totally vanishes: one out of four Republicans support…

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What’s happening in Philly schools is sad and disgusting

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This isn’t a matter of “not enough money.” This is the governor and the statehouse Republicans playing games with the funding to break the teachers union:

Robbing Peter to pay Paul: ‘Leveling’ Philly schools in the time of budget crisis Historic Philadelphia mansion leaves imprint on Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Signature of All Things’ (via NewsWorks)

It’s gone from bad to worse. Packed classrooms. Lack of a full-time guidance counselor. No education in arts or music. Those were the complaints of parents at South Philadelphia’s A.S. Jenks elementary school through the first month of school. And now…

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End game: John Boehner doesn’t even have to cave

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End Game: John Boehner Doesn’t Even Have to Cave (via Moyers & Company)

Seven days into a government shutdown, and 9 days away from a potentially catastrophic breach of the nation’s debt limit, and the question everyone is asking is: who will blink first? The White House says that it absolutely will not negotiate over…

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