GOP planning voter suppression of foreclosure victims!!
Oh, the gall. The gall! This has me so outraged that I'm writing my first diary after four years lurking here.Republicans create the biggest housing mess in decades, but of course manage to find a...
View ArticleBailout: Why Dems Must Hold On Bankruptcy, or, Et tu, Barack?
The question of whether to include bankruptcy shelter in the bailout package is, at its core, a question of whether struggling homeowners will get something or nothing out of the deal.Contrary to...
View ArticleUpdated: ABC News: Palin flub on bankruptcy has McCain camp flailing
As anyone who has followed the foreclosure crisis closely knows, there is currently a loophole in federal bankruptcy law that allows John McCain to protect his second through seventh homes and yachts...
View ArticleDueling press conferences: ACORN pwns McCain stooges at Press Club
In successive events this morning at the National Press Club, which I watched on C-SPAN 2, the McCain camp rolled out the same tired, bogus accusations about ACORN, and then... ACORNactually spoke for...
View ArticleMcCain contributed to the financial crisis by snoozing on the sidelines
So says a devastating new report just issued by ACORN. This is a response to the crazy, grainy-footage, scary-music ad that McCain released last week Friday attacking ACORN. For a laugh, you can...
View ArticleFirst MI, now FL? GOP plans more foreclosure caging at polls
Although there was a great settlement in Michigan this week, in which the MI GOP agreed to abandon its plans to use foreclosure lists to block voters at the polls, this tactic is still a potential...
View Article1st ever ACORN ad will give you chills in 30 seconds
I have no idea whether this is running on the networks or cable or what, but I do know it's up on the internets via YouTube.And let me tell you, this is one of very few political ads I've ever seen...
View ArticleMcCain still flailing on financial crisis - devastating
First, John McCain released an ad blaming ACORN for the financial crisis. This is an absurd argument, but one that nevertheless at least has a little cache among the economically illiterate of the...
View ArticlePaulson's "Bailout and Switch" reminiscent of WMD in Iraq
Remember how a couple of months after we invaded Iraq, all of a sudden we were no longer there because of Weapons of Mass Destruction, but instead because we were spreading democracy? So it is that as...
View ArticleSheila Bair for Treasury Secretary
I think most everyone is already caught up on why Larry Summers would be a terrible pick for Treasury Secretary. Today, we see in polling that 41% of Americans think that the Treasury Secretary is the...
View ArticleNYTimes: New Movement Resisting Evictions - good for Obama
Fellow progressives, this is one of the most exciting grassroots responses to the foreclosure crisis at the heart of our economic meltdown yet.From tomorrow's edition of the New York Times:As...
View ArticleI am DONE with MASSA, KISSELL and 22 other Dem Reps
Accountability Now - are you out there?Here are the names of the 24 Democrats that just voted with the banks and Wall Street against American homeowners who need relief in the foreclosure crisis:...
View ArticleRI-01: Why David Segal is #1 in DFA Grassroots Contest
With nine days left, Rhode Island Congressional candidate David Segal has emerged as the front-runner in Democracy for America's Grassroots All-Stars competition. To those of us who have worked with...
View ArticleRI-01: Segal has the SEIU Mo'!
I've written before about my friend David Segal -- congressional candidate in Rhode Island, in the 4-way September 14th primary to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy -- who is a progressive champion that has...
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