sending...If anyone knows Rick Perry, it’s America’s #1 populist, Jim Hightower. Hightower has had a front row seat for all of Perry’s gubenatorial antics.
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stand up Democrats Listen to this week's guests In-depth discussions with the nations top progressive commentators each week. Each show features a common sense commentary from Texan populist Jim Hightower. 
Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be – consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top… As political columnist Molly Ivins said, ‘If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor." To read his latest commentaries and subscribe to his monthly Hightower Lowdown, go to www.JimHightower.com.  Hear the host of The Bill Press Show on America'sDemocrats.org! Bill Press is a fierce progressive with insider access to the administration -- he's the only nationally syndicated talk radio host to attend the daily White House press briefings. Listen here for his interviews with lawmakers and prominent Democrats! Visit BillPressShow.com for more. |
Rick Perry has thrown his hat into the presidential ring, but what’s the real scoop on the Texas Governor?
She’s the winner of the Ames Straw Poll and the newest Tea Party darling, but who is the real Michele Bachmann? If you’re looking for the real scoop on Michele Bachmann and other Tea Party Republicans, become a fan of Democrats for America’s Future on Facebook. If [...] The Nation
Tim Pawlenty’s economic plan relies on a single fantastical notion, that tax cuts always produce an increase in revenue. When challenged on that with the Bush tax cuts, which depressed revenue for most of the last decade, Pawlenty has taken to attacking Bush for insufficient conservatism, blaming the president for spending [...] By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: May 8, 2011
The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe’s single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong? Well, what I’ve [...] By Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP leaders have launched a push to ram several years’ worth of conservative agenda items through the Legislature this spring before recall elections threaten to end the party’s control of state government. Republicans, in a rapid sequence of votes over the [...] |
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