Have the Democrats’ attacks on Crossroads GPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s shadowy financing hit or missed? Turns out they’ve done a little bit of both.
On the one hand, first Crossroads GPS and now the Chamber have claimed that the allegations have galvanized their supporters and More…
Victoria McGrane takes stock of the libertarian/liberal coalition against Ben Bernanke getting a second term at the Federal Reserve, reporting out some of the details I heard at last week’s “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” premiere. Not only is Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) teaming up with Sen. Bernie Sanders More…
MoveOn.org, the progressive grassroots action group with five million members, today emailed their supporters to urge them to host a screening of Brave New Foundation’s “Rethink Afghanistan” film. BNF calls the film “a great way to start a dialogue that will help build the movement to end the More…
When it comes to health care, at least, following the polls can be tricky.
Take this latest one Sam Stein reports on for The Huffington Post, showing that 77 percent of Americans think it’s important to have a “choice” between government-run health insurance and private coverage. That poll More…
Glenn Greenwald is doing some good work right now, following up on a post about the 2004 frenzy over MoveOn.org’s “Bush in 30 Seconds” contest — when a few anonymous people submitted videos comparing Bush to Hitler, and a media firestorm erupted — by asking some of the More…
Via Lindsay Beyerstein, John Stauber criticizes liberal groups for becoming de facto adjuncts of the Obama administration:
Yesterday, when it leaked that President Obama will put forward a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq in 19 months, I figured antiwar activists wouldn’t really mind that his new plan would take three months longer than the one he proposed on the campaign trail. My friend More…
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