After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case this spring, limits on how much corporations can spend on independent expenditures in congressional campaigns have been wholly erased. The same corporations that can spend as much as they want on congressional campaigns are also allowed to keep their contributor lists secret. All that the [...]

As a report issued by the U.S. Census bureau this week shows, only the top income bracket in the United States saw its average income rise last year: everybody else’s income in the United States went down. It’s the poor and the middle class who are struggling; America’s rich are doing just fine and even [...]

The Des Moines Tea Party is neither registered federally with the FEC or IRS as a political organization, nor at the state level with the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board. This makes the finances of the Des Moines Tea Party somewhat shadowy. Nevertheless, it has come out swinging in the Iowa 3rd District congressional [...]

When Erik Paulsen sent out invitations to tomorrow’s reception, he openly informed the potential guests that they should come bearing gifts of money for him. Apparently, Congressman Paulsen believes that the time has come when the United States of America needs leaders who are in love with money, rather than justice.

Senator Tom Carper of Delaware has introduced 37 non-symbolic bills to the United States Senate for consideration. A quick summary of them: 1 bill to declare that chain restaurants and cafeterias must be able to produce nutrition information for meals if someone asks for them. 1 bill to require that the Department of Education accredit [...]

Even Michele Bachmann admitted in her outraged press release that Geithner clarified his remarks, so that the American people would know quite clearly that he wasn’t proposing an international currency. So where’s the controversy?

Roland Burris, appointed by ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich to be a U.S. Senator, now acknowledges that he tried to raise money for Blagojevich before his appointment. Because he failed to raise that money, he insists he is in the clear ethically. But trying to be corrupt counts, Senator Burris, and it speaks of a willingness to [...]

For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.