Author: larryshockey

While many people dismiss it as a “Who cares?” moment, the next big moment for the Democratic Party is this weekend’s election of the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. At the center of the struggle between 8 candidates

“Well, we’re giving a little more to X [the Republican], naturally, ’cause he’s got a better chance of winning. But we’ve given a lot to Y [the Democrat], too. In fact, I think we may be his biggest single bloc

This has been a really sucky year–like I have to tell you. If you ticked any box in the general election, other than Republican, (and maybe a few who ticked the Republican box but for other candidates in the primary)

As of today both the House and the Senate have passed legislation repealing  a regulation enacted in the waning days of the Obama administration saying that people who had applied for Social Security disability benefits because of a mental condition, and whose

As further evidence that the republican party has no interest in transparency or ethics, The Denver Post reports that on a vote along party lines, 23 Republicans to 15 Democrats, the House Ways & Means Committed blocked Rep. Pascrell’s attempt to have

New Jersey Democratic Senator, Bill Pascrell has called on the ways and means committee to use a 1924 law to require the president to disclose his tax returns. The text of the tax code is set forth below. This happened

Over the last week and a half I was horrified to learn that several of our democratic senators voted in favor of one or more of the cabinet nominations proposed so far: Secretary of State, CIA director, Secretary of Defense,

Many of you may remember when President Clinton ran for the presidency he coined the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid!” in order to keep him and his staff focused on the central issue of the campaign. Now, more than 20