Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
The congressional Super Committee made sure that special perks for Wall Street fat cats are protected, but older Americans who have contributed to the system for decades are now going to have Medicare services denied to them. Talk back loud and clear with this bumper sticker, which declares, – Hands Off My Medicare!
Blake Farenthold scoffed that global warming is just a scare tactic, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration released scientific data showing that the drought and wildfires currently afflicting Texas are a result of an extreme shift in climate under which Texas has endured the hottest average summer temperature recorded in any state ever.
Cluster bombs have a nasty habit of killing innocent people. The bombs, which the United States supplies to the rest of the world, are dropped en masse during wars, but huge numbers of them don’t explode until much later, when they are picked up as small, shiny packages by little children or hit by farmers [...]
The big-necked Speaker of the House may think he can shut down the government, but he can’t shut you down. He can’t shut down your right to free speech. He can’t shut down your indignation at the gall of it all. He’s wrecked the country like Republicans seem to need to do every decade or [...]
Unlike many of his colleagues, Representative Sam Farr took a strong stand against the renewal of the most clearly unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act.
We need more leaders like Sheila Jackson Lee who remember what true American courage looks like. Courage means that, even if there are dangers out there in the world, we keep hold of our freedoms.
Marcy Winograd is the most liberal of the Democratic candidates for California’s 36th congressional district. She has a strong history as an anti-war activist, and has consistently campaigned for renewable energy, single-payer health care reform, and constitutional rights (the actual constitutional rights that are in the Constitution, not the Tea Party fantasy version).
David Dreier should choose to retire himself, or voters, in the primary election or general election of 2012, will choose retirement for Dreier.
Dan Benishek says that energy development is next to impossible, but data from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement from this morning show that, over the last half year, over 3,200 new permits for offshore drilling activity have been granted.
Gabrielle Giffords is not a progressive politician. She’s a conservative Blue Dog Democrat who supported Republican policies as often as she stood by Democratic ones, and almost never adopted a purely liberal stance. But although she does not share this website’s political philosophy, we nonetheless feel that her decision to dedicate her life to public [...]
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