Democrat Cory Booker may not want “to sit here and indict private equity” like that once run by Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, but a former Labor secretary was more than happy to take that plunge. Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., stirred up a firestorm Sunday by appearing on national TV to seemingly undercut President Obama’s attacks on the way Romney handled his time at the head of private-equity firm Bain Capital. However, Robert Reich, the Clinton-era Labor...
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Scofflaws and Submarine Sandwiches
ask yourself why Sarah Palin guesting on NBC's Today (Toady?) Show is getting exponentially MORE press coverage than this story?
President Obama Sings Sweet Home Chicago
As I noted here last night, the White House hosted a blues show last night that was being taped for broadcast on PBS, Monday February 27. At the end of the show, as the stage was filled with rock and blues legends including Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks and wife, Susan Tedeschi, Keb Mo and Buddy Guy. After introducing the finale, the president went back to his seat next to First Lady, Michelle Obama and soon after, Buddy Guy proceeded...
Breaking: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Announces Plan to Step Down from Congress
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has just announced plans to step down from Congress. Giffords was the “victim of a gunshot wound to the head in an attack a year ago in her Arizona district.” She said her work toward recovery was her reason for stepping down. Prior to the shooting Gabrielle Giffords “had been considered a rising Democratic star, and had been considering a bid for Senate this fall.” She has been absent from Capitol Hill over the course of her...
Iconic Singer Etta James Dead at 73
Blues, Jazz, R& B legend Etta James has passed away. She was 73. According to her longtime manager and friend, Lupe De Leon, Etta James “died from complications from leukemia with her husband, Artis Mills, and her sons by her side.” Etta James was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010. She also suffered from hepatitis C and dementia. James passed away at a hospital in Riverside, California. She would have turned 74 next Wednesday. Her manager Lupe De Leon said, “This is a...
The Monkey Cage
The Party has no clear consensus and, thus, "priorities" are all over the map. They are held together either by hatred -- Guns, God, Gays, etc. -- or else sheer contrariness -- oppose all Democratic ideas, no matter how sound -- but the fundamental positions within the GOP are SO contradictory that no one exists who could fill the wish list for the crazy salad they'd collectively like to toss.
Bruce Springsteen’s New Single: We Take Care Of Our Own (Video with Lyrics)
Bruce Springsteen’s new single “We Take Care Of Our Own,” off his upcoming CD, Wrecking Ball was released today. ABC News notes, “judging from the names of the other tracks listed on the singers website — “This Depression,” “Easy Money,” and “Death to My Hometown” — Springsteen is once again wading in political waters and returning his focus to working-class issues.” “We Take Care Of Our Own” is a hard hitting rocker, in true Springsteen / E Street Band style....
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