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The House of Representatives voted down Paulson’s Plunder on Monday, 225 to 208. Here’s why: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/36420

We demanded a No vote and for the first time in recent memory we were listened to. Thank you! Three cheers for the American people!

Now is not the time, however, to rest on our laurels. Speaker Pelosi is almost certain to dig deep in her purse for a different shade of lipstick she can smear on this pig in preparation for a re-vote, and it might be read more

Rep. Baldwin Introduces Bill to Undo and Prosecute Bush-Cheney Crimes

Baldwin Calls for Executive Accountability To Reverse Illegal Actions and Prevent Further Abuses

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2008, calling on the next President to reverse the damaging and illegal actions taken by the Bush/Cheney Administration and to collaborate with Congress to proactively prevent any further abuses of executive branch power.

“Over the past several years, read more

By David Swanson

I just read an interesting new book by Alicia Morgan called “The Price of Right: How the Conservative Agenda Has Failed America (and Always Will)” — a timely message right now, but let’s hope it does not remain so always.

If you read a lot of progressive political books, this one may seem a bit repetitive. Chapter One retells a Thom Hartmann theory about liberals as hunters and conservatives as farmers. Chapter Two is the early development of advertising read more