Reckless, detached from reality, dishonest. That’s what the CEO of AutoNation, Inc., the largest auto-dealer group in the U.S., said about Mitt Romney’s dangerous opposition to the auto rescue that was famously headlined “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” And he’s right: If Romney had had his way, GM wouldn’t be posting its highest profit ever and…
Frustrated by President Obama’s popular compromise that maintains religious freedom and protects women’s health with support from Catholic hospitals, universities and leaders, Republicans in Congress are working hard to further empower corporations at the expense of affordable access to birth control. Never ones to miss an opportunity to score cheap political points with far-right extremists,…
It’s Valentine’s Day, which means kids all over the state will be exchanging cards and candy at school today. In Lansing, corporate CEOs are doing the same thing. In fact, one CEO already dropped off a Valentine’s Day card and some chocolates at the State Capitol this morning to thank Lansing politicians for the $1.8…
Over the past couple days, news has surfaced that one of the panels at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference would be called “The Failure of Multiculuturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity” and feature the founder of VDARE.com, a white supremacist website named after the first European child born in…
Rep. Aric Nesbitt has been covered in this space before for his fealty to Big Oil interests, his “Environmental Zero” grade from Clean Water Action in 2011, his disregard for public input in the legislative process, and his preference for meaningless resolutions rather than focusing on things that matter, like jobs. And again, Big Oil’s favorite lawmaker is…
In response to a wave of negative reactions to his $75,000 Super Bowl ad buy (filmed in California), Pete Hoekstra has tried to deflect criticism by accusing Democrats of “talk(ing) about race when they can’t defend their records…” Unfortunately for Pete, the ad has been panned by figures on all sides of the political spectrum,…
In perhaps the most memorable line of his State of the State address, Gov. Snyder played off typical right-wing distaste for so-called “job-killing government regulations” by citing an obscure Department of Environmental Quality rule requiring that outhouse users close the seat while not in use. The only problem? There is no such regulation. The governor’s…
Apparently, calling for “an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules” is just too much to ask of Congressional Republicans. Because even before President Obama had started delivering his State of the Union address last night, GOP lawmakers were recycling their old…
After refusing for years to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney finally disclosed two years of them today, revealing that he pays a lower tax rate than millions of middle class families and has used offshore accounts in Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Cayman Islands. But is Romney hiding the rest of his tax returns…
Two years ago today, the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and money is speech, overturning two decades of precedent prohibiting direct corporate and union expenditures in political campaigns. The decision has been widely recognized as an encroachment on our democracy and elections, with criticism coming from nearly every corner of the political world. But is…