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glacierpeak commented on the blog post The Roundup for August 26, 2011
Mitt Romney’s carrying around a debt clock these days.
Wow, Thurston Howell meets Flavor Flav…
…I guess the result is a right-wing version of Bulworth?
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Anti-Union Law
Well fortunately we have a great alternative to being down or angry about this: fight back!
This election season, I’m giving my money to the unions. I don’t belong to one-hell I’m a sales guy with an MBA from a top-ranked university-but I do belong to Working America, which is open to us non-union types.
Working America touts itself as follows:
“Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is a powerful force for working people. We combine the strength of 10 million union men and women and millions of workers without the benefit of a workplace union who share common challenges and goals to fight in communities, states and nationally for what really matters–good jobs, affordable health care, world-class education, secure retirements, real homeland security and more.
We work against wrong-headed priorities favoring the rich and corporate special interests over America’s well-being.
Working America uses professional research, communication, education, canvassing, lobbying and community organizing to demand that politicians address the priorities that matter most to working people–not just wealthy special interests. Make a difference for your community, for America and for your working family.”
You can sign up online. I send some money to them each quarter, and ignore the constant barrage of emails from Obama fundraising machine, the DNC, and Senator Cantwell.
Now if I was a Wisconsin Dem, I would support them all I could. But for the rest of us, we have a great opportunity to take matters into our own hands, and via Working America build infrastructure that will actually work on our behalf.
This completely short-circuits the endless BS about supporting the national party because they are the only choice we have.
We’ve got a choice!
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glacierpeak commented on the diary post Holy Crap! President Announces That Osama Bin Laden Killed In Pakistan by Bill Egnor.
A great day for our country!!
Everyone-I don’t care who you are-everyone can celebrate tonight…
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post Paul Ryan Protects the Rich, Gets Booed at Constituent Meeting
Directly contrary to Ryan’s claim, one of the reasons for progressive taxation is precisely to tax business owners, so that they will have an incentive to instead re-invest that money back in the business.
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post Waukesha County Clerk Finds Votes for Brookfield on Her PC, Adds Over 7,500 Votes to Prosser’s Total
Here’s the video of the press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCVBB-ruKY
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post Waukesha County Clerk Finds Votes for Brookfield on Her PC, Adds Over 7,500 Votes to Prosser’s Total
Like I said, 14,000 votes is 11% of the total vote count in the State Supreme Court in Waukesha County. Do you really think they overlooked 11% of the vote?
I bet if KLO’s team came out strong tomorrow, Waukesha would quickly backtrack.
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post Prosser Pulls Back Into Lead in Nailbiter in Wisconsin UPDATE: Kloppenburg Gains Back
I would echo what 41 said: Waukesha’s total vote count was 125,000. That’s for both candidates in the race.
And the clerk’s claim is that they just discovered that 14,000 had been forgotten? They forgot roughly 9% of the total vote count in the county?
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Sirota, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now — Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
Off-topic, but David I really enjoyed your book Uprising (heard you speak in Seattle on your book tour), especially the chapter on the WFP.
With everything going on in the Midwest, you would think this would be their hour…or at least their hour of visibility. But I haven’t heard anything from them. Moreover, after your book came out I tried several times to contact them through their various offices in NY, OR, CT, and SC…never heard back.
Are these guys really interested in party building, or is it simply an inside game they are playing?
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glacierpeak commented on the diary post Water Cooler – Wisconsin Republicans Go Nuclear by Bill Egnor.
Thanks .02
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glacierpeak commented on the diary post Water Cooler – Wisconsin Republicans Go Nuclear by Bill Egnor.
Check it out: it is about the presidential election. I’m surprised that an entire state party would commit mass-suicide for the national ticket. But Fitzgerald comes right out and says it. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/09/wisconsin-senate-leader-admits-union-busting-bill-is-about-defeating-obama/ The amusing thing is that most of us around here don’t even like Obama. BTW: quick question…awhile back, California was looking at apportioning [...]
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glacierpeak commented on the diary post Water Cooler – Wisconsin Republicans Go Nuclear by Bill Egnor.
Check out a few short blog posts from (Nobel laureate for economics) Krugman on public sector unions: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/the-truth-about-pensions/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/the-contribution-scam/ And my favorite: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/not-enough-bureaucrats/ BTW: someone posted something about states with strong public unions also having larger deficits than their “right to work for less” counterparts. That’s because those states typically have much higher real estate [...]
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glacierpeak commented on the diary post Water Cooler – Wisconsin Republicans Go Nuclear by Bill Egnor.
First of all, there isn’t much of a difference between Republicans and Democrats…at least not outside of Wisconsin. If the rest of the Democratic party were like the Wisconsin Democrats…well the politics of this country would have been wildly different over the last 20 years. But that aside, I’m a little confused why the state [...]
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glacierpeak commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Daniel Altman, Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy
I recently read (and highly recommend) Dani Rodrik’s The Globalization Paradox. Any comments on this book specifically, and Rodrik’s impact on the policy community in general, by our two authors today?
