Progress Michigan blog posts.
On Wednesday, April 10, a historic march will take place in Washington D.C. It will be historic in part because it’s coming on the heels of the growing momentum for serious, common sense, immigration reform. For the first time in decades, there is bipartisan agreement that the U.S. immigration system is broken and there is…
This morning started with an op-ed from Speaker Jase Bolger about how despite the stagnant unemployment rate and the refusal of Lansing Republicans to fix our roads and invest in education, Michigan is “The Comeback State!” Unfortunately for Republican politicians, it was all downhill from there. The story of Detroit’s new Emergency Manager’s unpaid taxes…
This morning the Detroit News broke the story that Kevyn Orr, Gov Snyder’s appointee as Detroit’s Emergency Manager, was hit with four tax liens in four years for unpaid unemployment and income taxes. When he was shown copies of the liens Friday, the News reported he “didn’t know anything about” them. To make matters worse, it…
The only national political news big enough to overcome today’s CPAC vacuum was an op-ed written by Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, in which he announced an evolution in his position on marriage equality. His decision was lauded as “courageous” by David Axelrod. He credited his son coming out as gay to him and his…
Real policy discussions take hours, not minutes. Unfortunately, most news outlets don’t have time for them and usually resort to reporting each side of an issue as equally valid. So we thought we’d take a moment to look at some of the absurd proposals Michigan Republicans are considering (and wasting taxpayer dollars on in the…
Do you remember the 2012 election? When Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate it all but cemented the growing media narrative that 2012 would be a choice between two competing visions for America: “we’re in this thing together” vs. “you’re on your own.” It was all pretty simple. Less government is good,…
Jase Bolger’s tenure as Speaker of the Michigan House has been shaky at best. The man is just not cut out for leadership. He careens from wielding nominal control over his caucus to being embroiled in a scandal that could swallow everything he’s worked for; and he does it all with the grace of a…
Republicans are in bad shape. They’ve lost the popular vote in the last five (of six) Presidential elections. They garnered fewer total votes than Democrats and only managed to hang on to a majority in the House thanks to heavily gerrymandered districts. In short, Republicans are losing. And the reason is pretty simple, the American…
Last night’s announcement of Senator Carl Levin’s retirement was notable for the vitriol it inspired among Michigan’s right-wing. Not all of them – Attorney General Bill Schuette praised Sen. Levin’s “distinguished and honorable career,” and Gov. Snyder said “his service on behalf of Michigan and America is commendable.” But the statement from the Michigan Republican…
Rep. Lisa Lyons, no stranger to hypocrisy, is at it again. She last made national news in December for proposing an amendment that would have exempted her husband, who works as a corrections officer, from the “right-to-work” law. She did so while declaring on the House floor that “all people should have the freedom to…