I’m gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee; George can’t hit what his hands can’t see; Now you see me, now you don’t; He thinks he will, but I know he won’t. ~ Muhammad Ali At last week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee.… Continue Reading
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Leo W. Gerard: Republicans Reject Union Workers But Respect Union Refs
Republicans’ reaction to last week’s Monday Night Football debacle was record-breaking given their decades of hating on union workers. After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and even Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the figurehead for GOP union-busting,… Continue Reading
Romney Loves American Cars; Obama Loves American Car Workers
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, son of an American Motors CEO, naturally says he loves American cars. His wife, as he put it, “drives a couple of Cadillacs.”He’s installing an elevator in his beach mansion just for his cars. Though a millionaire, he rejected flying his five sons to a vacation destination, instead packing them into a car,… Continue Reading
Labor Day: Team America, Including Workers, Built That
The GOP, the party of exclusion — no gays seeking marriage allowed, also no Hispanics, no black people, no poor people who are on or ever were on welfare, and no women who are on or ever were on birth control – yeah, that private party spent last week taking sole credit for America’s greatness,… Continue Reading
PILOTS AT ALLEGIANT AIR VOTE TO JOIN TEAMSTERS
PILOTS AT ALLEGIANT AIR VOTE TO JOIN TEAMSTERS Pilots Seek Fair Work Rules, Scheduling Improvements, Improved Benefits (Washington, D.C.) – Pilots at Allegiant Air have voted to join the Airline Professionals Association (APA), Teamsters Local 1224 in Wilmington, Ohio, the Teamsters Airline Division announced today. There are approximately 350 pilots in the bargaining… Continue Reading
Insecurity Separates Middle Class From Romney, Ryan
The rich, those born sucking silver spoons like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, really are different from the middle class. The wealthy grow up and live their lives wrapped in security. That’s what gives them the arrogance to organize a posse to hold down a fellow prep school student and chop off his hair, mock… Continue Reading
Demote, Defang DeMarco
This guy, Edward DeMarco, is deliberately damaging America — promoting foreclosures, high unemployment and excessive taxes. This guy, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has aggressively denied help to eviction-imperiled homeowners. And now he’s threatening to prevent towns from implementing their own plans to rescue underwater homeowners — those with mortgages exceeding their… Continue Reading
Leo W. Gerard: GOP: Lack of Insurance Revokes Sanctity of Life
In the case of fetuses and rich people, Republicans insist on the sanctity of life. But in the case of destitute people, infants who imprudently choose working-poor parents and struggling young adults — basically all riffraff unable to afford health insurance — the GOP says there’s nothing sacred about their stinking lives. Let ‘em die.… Continue Reading
Leo W. Gerard : Hey, Romney, Let Voters See What You Showed McCain
John McCain and Mitt Romney share a secret. It’s 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns. Mitt gave them to McCain in 2008 when McCain, then the GOP presidential nominee, was vetting VP candidates. This time around, Mitt has won the GOP nomination, but now he’s hiding those 23 years of returns from the American people.… Continue Reading
Leo W. Gerard Casper the Friendly Ghost Can’t Control Wall Street
Bankers love to recount the fabled story of the invisible hand. In their version, the superhero Invisible Hand effectively controls the market, thoroughly trust-busting and fraud-forestalling. Everyone lives happily ever after. Truth be told, however, the tale of the invisible hand is a horror story. The invisible hand fails miserably to constrain bankster racketeering. It… Continue Reading