Independent Women’s Voice describes itself as “non-partisan”, but absolutely none of the independent expenditure spending Independent Women’s Voice has been for the benefit of a Democratic candidate.

Republican Senator Scott Brown drove by the Occupy Boston protests against corporate greed last week. He didn’t get out of his car. He didn’t talk to any of his constituents. He didn’t even roll down his window. He didn’t have time for people peaceably assembling to petition for the redress of grievances. That’s old-school constitutional [...]

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Karen Bass has visited the Occupy Los Angeles protest and endorsed the protest’s goals.

The Republicans in Congress are expected to ignore genuine grassroots protests. The Democrats, however, are losing an opportunity. If they continue to pretend that these protests don’t exist, they may find their political party replaced with a new voice from the Left that knows what a backbone is for.

Bernard Sanders praised the upcoming occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. to start on October 6, and said that he will attempt to attend that protest himself. “Any attention that we can pay to the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street or to what the Fed is not doing is deserved attention, so I will see if I can be there,” Sanders said.

There may be a great deal of talk in the coming weeks about a millionaire’s tax, but there will be no action. Republicans won’t budge, no matter how low Obama sets the limit on contributions from wealthy Americans.

Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.

A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.

In the 111th Congress, Senator Russ Feingold introduced S. 482, a bill to require senators to file campaign finance reports electronically, and to be received promptly by the Federal Election Commission. That sounds technical and small, but it’s actually a pretty big deal because of the way things run now. A large number of Senators [...]

The Democrats on the Super Committee are slightly more liberal than the Republicans are conservative, but the difference is only 3 percentage points – not a very significant amount. The Republican and Democratic teams alike included only one of their strongest ideologues, tending toward politicians in the middle range of their parties’ principles.