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November 10, 2011 9:43 pm | By Jen Herrick
PFAW Applauds Committee Vote on Respect For Marriage Act
Back in July, I had the privilege of attending the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act. Today brought me to another historic moment: the passage of that bill out of Committee. Senator Feinstein, the bill’s chief…
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November 10, 2011 3:50 pm | By
Tuesday’s Biggest Loser: The New, New Mitt Romney
The new, new Mitt Romney has been doing everything he can to fit in. But on Tuesday, he faced a big setback: he found out that he had been trying too hard to fit in with the wrong crowd.Mitt was…
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November 10, 2011 6:00 am | By Diallo Brooks
A Time for House Party Action
Last night the energy continued to grow as citizens from all over the country gathered in living rooms, church basements, college campuses and “Occupy” protests to discuss the need for a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s ruling that…
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November 9, 2011 6:05 pm | By Paul Gordon
No Dent in the Nominations Backlog
November appears to be another month of Republican obstruction of qualified mainstream judicial nominees. So far this month, despite the substantial backlog of pending nominations, the Senate has voted to confirm only three judges. In the same period of time,…
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November 9, 2011 5:34 pm | By Brian
Pastors Challenge The Extremism Behind ‘The Call: Detroit’
Cross-posted on Right Wing Watch As Lou Engle prepares to lead The Call:Detroit on Friday, Detroit pastors are beginning to speak out against Engle’s radical ideology and some are urging Detroit residents not to participate in his prayer rally. Rev.…
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November 9, 2011 3:21 pm | By
Yesterday’s Big Election Victories and What They Mean
What a huge day for progressive power! Yesterday, voters in nearly every region of the country turned out and resoundingly defeated right-wing attacks on: Workers’ Rights (Ohio); Choice (Mississippi); Voting Rights (Maine); Marriage Equality (Iowa); Immigrant Civil Rights AND Government…
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November 8, 2011 8:24 pm | By Jen Herrick
SB 137 says Michigan bullies can hide behind religion
In 2002, upon completing eighth grade at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing, MI, Matt Epling was the victim of a hazing assault by upperclassmen. Roughly forty days later, presumably still reeling from the aftermath of the incident, Matt committed…
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November 8, 2011 8:14 pm | By Paul Gordon
DC Circuit Upholds Healthcare Law and Demolishes Right’s Arguments
In an opinion written by conservative Judge Laurence Silberman, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Court today upheld the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act. In a carefully considered 2-1 opinion, the…
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November 7, 2011 11:11 pm | By Marge Baker
Jobs Relief for Disabled and Unemployed Veterans: Who Could Object?
This morning, I was pleased to be able to attend an event at the White House where President Obama announced plans to move legislation to encourage employers to hire disabled and unemployed veterans by making tax credits available to the…
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November 7, 2011 3:48 pm | By Paul Gordon
Houston Newspaper Retracts Endorsement Over Homophobic Flier
Over the weekend, the Houston Chronicle retracted its endorsement of a school board incumbent over a last-minute campaign flier dripping with homophobia. A last-minute campaign flier for Rodriguez displays appalling homophobia. The flier urges recipients not just to vote for…
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November 4, 2011 7:17 pm | By Justin
Helping Voters Exercise Their Right Must Be Fraud
A report in the Wall Street Journal detailing the Obama campaign’s plan to help eligible voters navigate the onslaught of voter suppression measures being implemented in states around the country can only mean one thing to Fox guest Chris Plante:…
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November 3, 2011 6:09 pm | By admin
Oh, You Mean That “Random Person” Sitting Right Next To Me?
Cross-posted on Right Wing Watch Just yesterday, the Washington Post noted the bizarre stranglehold that Grover Norquist and his anti-tax zealotry has over Republicans in Congress. Today, during his weekly press conference, House Speaker John Boehner was asked by NBC’s…
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November 2, 2011 4:26 pm | By Justin
Boulder, Colorado Joins Call for End to Corporate Personhood
Citizens of Boulder, Colorado voted last night to pass a ballot measure calling for a constitutional amendment stating that corporations are not people and do not have the same rights as people to influence elections. The campaign was a grassroots…
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November 2, 2011 4:07 pm | By Diallo Brooks
What do we need? JOBS! When do we need them? NOW!
Every day all over the country we hear that what the American people need most are jobs in our communities. President Obama has proposed a jobs bill that would help create these jobs while rebuilding crumbling infrastructure and make sure…
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November 2, 2011 2:18 pm | By Jen Herrick
Norton Thanks Issa for Pulling DC Bill
Yesterday we reported how eager Representative Darrell Issa was to override DC’s home rule when he introduced a bill to mandate new DC hiring practices. Just hours later, he pulled his bill off the markup schedule for his committee, where…
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November 2, 2011 2:00 pm | By Miranda Blue
Letter to the New York Times: The GOP’s War on the Courts
This letter to the editor from PFAW's Marge Baker was published in today's New York Times:Re “G.O.P. Field Stoking Anger at U.S. Courts” (front page, Oct. 24):Extreme anti-judiciary measures like those proposed by Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul,…
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November 1, 2011 9:14 pm | By Justin
Corporate Political Spending: Relief through Consumer & Shareholder Pressure
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC which granted corporations the same rights as people to spend unlimited, undisclosed money to influence elections, the 2012 election cycle promises to bring the biggest flood of political spending…
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November 1, 2011 7:52 pm | By Matt
Florida Students Get Lesson in Voter Suppression
The abhorrent new Florida election-law has snared its first public victim: A high school teacher who’s being fined a thousand dollars for failing to turn in voter registration forms she collected from her civics class within 48 hours.Earlier this year,…
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November 1, 2011 7:35 pm | By Miranda Blue
GOP Cabinet Member: Republicans in Congress Don’t Care About Jobs
In an interview with the Daily Beast, transportation secretary and former GOP congressman Ray LaHood comes right out and says it: the current Republican Congress cares more about defeating President Obama than about creating jobs. LaHood is understandably most incensed…
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November 1, 2011 5:36 pm | By Matt
Memo to House Republicans: Slogans Don’t Create Jobs
Later today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA.) will bring to the house floor a non-binding resolution that reaffirms “In God We Trust” as the official motto of the United States. The move might not fit with the House Republicans’…