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Gallup: Americans Support Employee Free Choice by 14 Point Majority

An independent Gallup poll released this morning reveals broad and strong majority support for the Employee Free Choice Act, with 53 percent of Americans supporting its passage, and just 39 percent opposing the bill. The bill is favored not just by ...

From JAKE MCINTYRE AKA TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Gallup,  Peter hart,  AFL-CIO,  Barack Obama

Bizarro Stimulus

In Earth's version of the US Senate, the purpose of a stimulus bill is to create jobs and get the economy moving . . . SENATOR LANE: Fellow Senators, have you noticed that a shocking number -- as much as 20% -- of the job losses that our nation has ...

From JAKE MCINTYRE AKA TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  10 Feb 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate

Hilda Solis: Guilty of the GOP's Unforgivable Sin

Tim Geithner has been confirmed as Treasury Secretary, despite his failure to pay taxes on substantial income while employed by the IMF. Tom Daschle probably would have been confirmed at HHS had he not withdrawn from the process -- Senate Democrats and ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  5 Feb 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Tom Daschle,  International Monetary Fund

Sandy Weill, King of Kings

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Sanford I. Weill,  Citigroup,  Andy Warhol,  U.S. Congress,  Bill Clinton

President Obama: "You cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement."

I also believe that we have to reverse many of the policies towards organized labor that we've seen these last eight years, policies with which I've sharply disagreed. I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem, to me it's part of the ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  30 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Why the Employee Free Choice Act Is So Important: The Power of Organization

At the banquet table of nature there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything; and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  4 Jan 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Grover Norquist,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party

Richardson Withdrawing As Commerce Secretary Nominee

"Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact," he said Sunday in a report by NBC News. "But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  4 Jan 2009

The Case for Seating Burris

We are a nation of rules, after all. How about we follow them rather than creating all this damned drama? Blagojevich will have his day in court, but for now he is legally the governor, he is legally carrying out his duties, and unless and until the ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  2 Jan 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  Jesse Jackson, Jr. (politician),  Valerie Jarrett

There Is A Sickness in the Senate

Collegiality taken too far becomes clubbiness, and clubbiness is just on the other side of a fine line from corruption. Tennessee Senator Bob Corker said yesterday that a crisis like the U.S. automakers’ fight for survival can create opportunities by ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Bob Corker,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Mitch McConnell,  Harry Reid

RNC Chair Cattle Call! 11/11 Edition: Newt Plays Coy

Before we get started with the handicapping and gloating, let's make one thing clear. Although the battle for RNC chair may appear to be akin to a shit-flinging fight amongst aging, arthritic captive chimps for alpha male status in the Cincinnati Zoo's ...

From TRAPPER JOHN, Daily Kos,  11 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Howard Dean,  U.S. Republican Party,  Marge Schott,  Martin Frost,  Harold Ickes

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