Let’s Reinvent America Ourselves! Right now the nation’s focus is starting to move to the upcoming election. But framing for election work is tightly scripted by the Democratic Party. It still looks focused on a few safe leverage points vis-à-vis the Republican message. Even if the Democrats do go a little bit “bigger” before November […]

These days it’s pretty much agreed that our country is at risk of a double dip recession or even a full-fledged depression. Yet astoundingly enough, some “Have” members of Congress were unwilling to extend unemployment benefits or provide aid to the states without new cuts elsewhere. Deficit Delirium and Fear of Creeping Socialism are the […]

Today the phrase, ‘the American dream,’ still means getting a house in the suburbs, holding down a well-paid job we like doing, and having enough money to buy whatever we want. Of course, ‘the American dream’ defined this way is looking more dead every day. Too many Americans are still unemployed or cannot get new […]

Right now the biggest game on Capitol Hill is the financial reform bill. Although the outcome is still far from sure, the Democrats are finally getting their narrative on this topic right, moving into American ‘punch back fighter’ mode. They’re countering Republican and Chamber of Commerce propaganda immediately.  They’re ‘stepping up to the plate’ and demanding […]

Making a breakthrough is an important piece of the ideal American story. Just before Representative Dennis Kucinich voted for the recent health insurance reform bill, he told Esquire.com (esquire.com/the-side/qa/dennis-kucinich-health-care-bill-032210) about the breakthrough that led him to do it.  Hope for future health care reform bills revived because of it.  Now, lined up on the political […]

In December, 2009, President Obama said, “the buck stops with me,” when the Homeland Security Department he inherited from Bush & Co. failed to prevent the Christmas bomber’s attempt. But the four alarm mess the Bushies dumped on Obama and the rest of us, including the badly pasted together Homeland Security Department, is not a […]