Jon Stewart Takes Over Colbert's Late Show Desk

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Latte Liberal Gets an Earful

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Michele Bachmann at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference

Tea Baggers and Coffee Grinders find common ground

The conservatives consider poverty (i.e. moral, financial, social, educational, economical, language) to be grounds for abuse and neglect as justification to remove a child and terminate parental rights.

This thought was put to paper in the form of a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, called "The White Man's Burden." The poem speaks upon the burdens of taking savages, erasing their cultural histories and assimilation.

Then, you have on the liberal side those who believe that the foster care system, complete with all its services and programs, is the only solution to end abuse and neglect which is a result of poverty by terminating parental rights and adoption.

This idea was put to paper by Henry Labouchere entitled "The Brown Man's Burden. The idea was to give so many burdens to assimilate that they would fail and fall back into servitude.

The peculiar institution has been never been dismantled, it lives on as the child welfare industry, an industry without accountability nor transparency, riddled with fraud, waste and abuse, and supported by tea baggers and coffee grinders alike.

Finally, something in common!

Four Lessons From The Health Care Fight: A Game Plan For Reform In 2010

Four Lessons From The Health Care Fight: A Game Plan For Reform In 2010

It has become clear that the conservatives in America are determined to do everything in their power to derail the movement for change and reform for their corporate masters. Not since the time of Andrew Jackson following his defeat in the 1824 election has this country seen such a partisan attempt to prevent anything from happening in Congress. There are some lessons in the struggle to pass strong health care reform, and these need to be learned very well by progressives and Democrats if our country is ever going to improve...more

It was not a brick

‘The BIG Black Lie’ Author Debates MSNBC’s Shuster...


‘The BIG Black Lie’ Author Debates MSNBC’s Shuster on Tea Pa
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He did not throw a brick, he threw a tea bag, so I guess he considers it alright.

I could have made a direct link to MSNBC but I wanted everyone to read the comments on this site.

You said it...

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THOM HARTMANN: Welcome back. There's a — an amazing piece of this whole health-care drama, really the Republican/Democratic drama, the Hard Right vs. the rest of America drama, the racists vs. the rest of us drama, that's being played out beneath the radar. And I want to lay it out for you. Because I think it's just a cryin' shame that America is not talking about this...more

We are not talking about this, we are posting it.

Tea bags and coffee grounds

Tea Bags And Coffee Grounds

by digby

I came across this post I wrote some years ago and it seemed to me that it would be a good time to run it again. I'm sure most of you know this stuff, but it's worth thinking about anyway in this age of teabaggers and coffee parties and populist progressivism (or progressive populism)...more