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DNC 2024: Mayor Tom Barrett tells Democratic Convention planners that Milwaukee is ready to host

DNC 2024: Mayor Tom Barrett tells Democratic Convention planners that Milwaukee is ready to host

Posted by | Sep 30, 2021 |

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett formally responded to the Democratic National Committee’s invitation to compete for hosting its 2024 national convention. He said that Milwaukee was all in. As the economic engine for the state of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was selected in March 2019 to host the 2020 DNC, beating the larger cities of Miami and Houston. It marked the first time that Democrats would meet in a midwest city – other than Chicago – to nominate their candidate for president in more than a century. The 2020 DNC was expected to bring $200 million to Wisconsin’s economy. But the event...

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Weaponizing the debt ceiling: Why Republicans are taking the country hostage to undercut Democrats

Weaponizing the debt ceiling: Why Republicans are taking the country hostage to undercut Democrats

Posted by | Sep 29, 2021 |

The Senate considered a bill to fund the government until December and to raise the debt ceiling on September 27. The Republicans joined together to filibuster it. Such a move is extraordinary. Not only did the Republicans vote against a measure that would keep the government operating and keep it from defaulting on its debt — debt incurred before Biden took office — but they actually filibustered it, meaning it could not pass with a simple majority vote. The Republicans will demand 60 votes to pass the measure in the hope of forcing Democrats to pass it themselves, alone,...

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The Eastman Memo: Written proof of Trump’s attempt to replace our democracy with an autocracy

The Eastman Memo: Written proof of Trump’s attempt to replace our democracy with an autocracy

Posted by | Sep 26, 2021

On September 20, we learned that after last year’s election, John Eastman, a well-connected lawyer advising former president Donald Trump, outlined a six-point plan to overturn the outcome of the election and install Trump as America’s leader. They planned to cut the voters’ actual choice, Democrat Joe Biden, out of power: as Trump advisor Steve Bannon put it, they planned to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” This appears to have been the plan that Trump and his loyalists tried to execute on January 6. That is, we now have written proof of an attempt to destroy our...

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Financial Deadlines: Why the debt ceiling is being used as a tool to destroy a strong federal government

Financial Deadlines: Why the debt ceiling is being used as a tool to destroy a strong federal government

Posted by | Sep 23, 2021 |

The House of Representatives passed a funding bill on September 21 that would both keep the government from shutting down and prevent a default on the U.S. debt. The vote was 220 to 211, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans voting against. There are two financial deadlines looming. One is the need for Congress to fund the government. In late December 2020, Congress passed a huge bill that, among other things, funded the government through September 30. The new fiscal year starts on October 1, and if the government is not funded, it will have to...

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The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years

The Two Santas Strategy: How the GOP has used an economic scam to manipulate Americans for 40 years

Posted by | Sep 23, 2021

“The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.” – Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976 The stock market is falling, in part a reaction to GOP threats to shut down the government: it’s all part of their plan. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week warned us that the GOP is about to use Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Clauses” fraud again to damage Biden’s economy and our standing in the world. And, sure enough, Mitch McConnell verified it when he said last week there would be “zero” Republican votes to raise...

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Power of the State: A departure from Ronald Reagan’s limited government to an absolute intrusion

Power of the State: A departure from Ronald Reagan’s limited government to an absolute intrusion

Posted by | Sep 23, 2021 |

I am old enough to remember when the Republican party stood for limited government and Ronald Reagan thundered “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Today’s Republican party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, is practicing just the opposite: government intrusion everywhere. Republican lawmakers are banning masks in schools. Iowa, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona and South Carolina are prohibiting public schools from requiring students wear them. Republican states are on the way to outlawing abortions. Texas has just banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even...

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