Unions are a part of capitalism; they are one of the self-regulating forces that can serve to keep ‘too-big-to-fail’ at bay. They are a check on absolute power.
President Obama stood up for workers in Michigan today by saying, ‘These so called right to work laws have nothing to do with economics. They have everything to do with politics.’
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama’s victory in 2012 looks like, look no further than Michigan.
His decision to pepper spraying protesters shows just how much Rick Snyder respects people making choices.
It was a great day for the nation when President Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term in office, and it was also a good day in Michigan when voters cast their ballots to reject Proposal 1.
Team Obama is calling Romney’s bluff, saying ‘Voters who haven’t heard from the Romney campaign in two years will see this desperation for what it is.’
The drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% has gotten the radicals on the right all twisted and spouting pathetic conspiracy theories about the BLS and Obama. Here’s why they are wrong.
Seven new swing state polls released today all came to the same conclusion. President Obama has at least a four point lead in Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
The problem for Mitt Romney and the Republicans is the reality of the economy is not fitting into the rhetoric they are spewing to the American people.
If Romney loses Michigan or Massachusetts and wins the White House, he will be the first candidate since 1916 to lose his home state and win the presidency. He’s not only losing his two home states, but Ryan’s as well.
Deceptively named front groups, posing as grassroots organizations while actually representing corporate interests, are becoming rampant.
We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms – I think it’s quite obvious that Isaac is God’s answer to the Republican platform
MI Republican candidate for Congress Kerry Bentivolio told his students his goal was to make them cry and he added, ‘You’re just a paycheck to me.’
Republican Governor Rick Snyder and his henchmen continue to do all they can to thwart the will of the people by forcing PA4 (the Emergency Manager law) down their throats.
Michigan finally managed to get the Emergency Manager Law put on the ballot this November, meaning the law is now suspended. Snyder claims that all decisions made by EMs stand, while cities disagree.
Michigan lawmakers are pushing through a bill that allows professionals to discriminate against GLBT clients in defiance of Codes of Ethics
Gov. Snyder isn’t yet receiving the off-with-his-independent-head kinda threats received by John Roberts after he also made the mistake of deciding to do the right thing rather than the easy thing
Thaddeus McCotter’s (R-MI) odd resignation letter is not only a bizarre almost Palinesque ode to confusion, but includes references to the militia group, sovereign citizens.
Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they’ve been making but they’re not about to extend Democrats the same privilege
Conservatives in Michigan and across the country seek to regulate women’s bodies and their relationships with medical profession, but women are pushing back.
Rick Snyder is not Scott Walker. Both of them are repulsive in their own right, and each of their states would be considerably better off with them gone, but there are some significant differences.
A federal Judge blocks Michigan’s controversial law prohibiting school districts from collecting union dues via payroll deductions.
A Ken doll could give more substantive answers to questions, but then maybe that’s Mitt Romney’s intent.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is going on a deregulation spree ostensibly to create jobs, even though the CBO clearly laid out that deregulation does not create jobs.
Republicans decided that the people of Michigan should not be allowed to vote on the Emergency Manager law because the size of the font on the petition. Seriously.
Despite scoring a recent major victory, opponents of Michigan’s Emergency Manager law had their efforts to get a repeal measure on the ballot blocked by Republicans on the Board of State Canvassers.
It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan’s emergency manager laws are a threat to democracy, and the chance to repeal them faces an uncertain future
If Romney wins in November, urban communities around the country will be forced into dependency by hateful Republicans. If Obama loses, Detroit is a preview of things to come.
Detroit is facing a crisis. It may not be able to conduct a Presidential election due to lack of funding in the budget.
Rachel Maddow told Michigan Republicans to bring it on after they responded to her report on their circumventing of democracy with insults.
“Moderate†Republican Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s tax policy drops corporation income taxes by 83 percent, while increasing taxes by 23 percent for actual humans (now known as the peasant class).
On the basis of GOP legislation since 2010, it is an inescapable conclusion that Republican governance is bad governance as it consistently violates the democratic process
Rachel Maddow isn’t alarmist, but she is sounding the alarm and eviscerating Michigan Republicans for their unprecedented dismantling of democracy.
The new dominionist fantasy is the threat of Islam in Michigan where 3 percent of the population will somehow turn it into Michiganistan
Mitt Romney flip flops again. Today Romney told Fox and Friends that it was “outrageous and disgusting†for Santorum to try to get Michigan Democrats to vote in Republican primaries in order to push the seemingly unelectable Rick Santorum to the top. Rick Santorum, who doesn’t support bailouts of the auto companies or Wall Street,…
ALL ABOARD! The Nutbag Express will be making stops in Michigan and Arizona tonight as Republican voters take another step towards determining who will get to lose to President Obama.
If Mitt has to spend millions to beat Santorum in Michigan, what do you figure it’s gonna take to beat President Barack Obama?
Chinese sweatshops are horrific, and they could happen here.
Remember Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s racist, xenophobic, and all around offensive Super Bowl ad? Voters in Michigan do, and the Democrat now has a double digit lead.
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
Santorum surges in GOP races. My local newspaper headline pretty much captured the flavor of yesterday’s round of two Republican Presidential caucuses and one non-binding primary. It was definitely the flaming heterosexual’s day in the sun, though in the future there will be many more of those hotter than normal sunny days in all sections…
House Republicans are trying to place a provision in the payroll tax cut extension that would cut benefits for millions, including unemployed Republicans.
Republicans in Tennessee say anti-bullying exceptions should be made on the basis of religious, philosophical and political beliefs
Detroiters raise their voices – and combine forces – to do whatever is necessary to prevent an EFM from being appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to oversee Michigan’s largest city.
Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle is fear-mongering in her incoherent way again. This time she’s hitting on Dearborn, Michigan, suggesting there is a “militant terrorist” situation in Dearborn as they are under Sharia law. This, of course, is patently ridiculous. Dearborn Michigan is a city outlying the larger city of Detroit and the hometown of Henry Ford, as well as headquarters of the Ford Motor Company. It’s also home to our current Miss America, who happens to be a Muslim. Dearborn has a large, thriving Muslim community. Shiver me timbers.
Last night, Rachel Maddow applied her razor-like intellect to expose the inherent hypocrisy in the modern GOP, hiding beneath a thin veneer of cowardly double-talk. One of her examples was Bob Corker, R-TN. Corker fought to kill the US auto industry. He filibustered the auto bailout, holding it hostage until he could be promised that the auto workers would be paid less and ultimately voted no on it.
