Charlie Dent (R-PA) met with some of his constituents last week and they wanted to know why House Republicans were holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to NOT raise taxes on the wealthy.
Really, if you have been paying any attention at all to the deficit discussions over the past 6 months or so, you will know that the only people who are against increasing tax revenues -- whether that is from increased taxes on the wealthy or closing of unneeded loopholes) -- are Congressional Republicans. There has been a decent amount of polling about this over the past 6 months, polling that Bruce Bartlett has rounded up at his blog.
So I wonder what these people will be celebrating on Monday? According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from…
Tom Morello (as The Nightwatchman) was asked to perform at the Teamsters and rocked the house with the uncensored version of This Land is Your Land and a song he wrote called Worldwide Rebel Song.