YOUR FACTS ARE FALSE: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) embarrassed himself on ABC’s This Week on Sunday when he attempted to skew facts into his own Republican reality, using the typical canned talking points of the right. Normally the hosts of these shows take it easy on such obvious lies and distortions of the facts, but Sen. Johnson was not […]
Elizabeth Warren is proving to be a force to be reckoned with. At her first Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Elizabeth Warren grilled bank regulators and made them squirm. FDIC, SEC, OCC, CFPB, CFTC, Fed and Treasury got a taste of how things will be changing with Warren asking the questions. Her first […]
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke out today against President Obama’s proposal to raise minimum wage to $9.00 per hour an index it to inflation so that it keeps up with the economy saying it would negatively affect the ability of young workers to enter the workforce. She went on to note that a higher minimum […]
Patriotic Millionaire Eric Schoenberg leaves Fox Business host Stuart Varney speechless at 3:51. In November 2010, during the lame duck session negotiations on extending unemployment benefits, more than 100 millionaires came together to urge the President not to extend cuts to individuals earning above $1 million per year. The group is now comprised of over […]
Bill Moyers & Company, full episode from January 25, 2013 In this segment, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch talks about Amgen’s sweet senate deal followed by Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and Lynn Paltrow discussing abortion rights activism. BILL MOYERS: This week on Moyers & Company… PETER WELCH: I want to get the tax payers their money back. And […]