As we await to hear Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's budget proposal for 2012 that essentially eliminates Medicare as we know it, what's going on with the battle to get a final budget passed in fiscal year 2011? All reports are that House Speaker John Boehner was set to make a deal, but he continues to get pressure from the tea party, who continue to exercise their political juice, even if they don't even represent half the country.
Florida Republicans said they were all about getting people back to work when they campaigned last fall, but now that they're in office, why not do all you can do in terms of social legislation? That prompted Orlando Democrat Scott Randolph to make a crack that the GOP would care about his wife's uterus if it was incorporated, getting him a tongue lashing from Republicans about using such "language." But Randolph is having a little laugh about it now, though the legislation he fights against is "winning."
Barack Obama announced his candidacy for re-election yesterday. No doubt he'll raise lots of money – but we do doubt the conventional wisdom that will total a billion dollars.
And yesterday was the anniversary of the slaying of the late Martin Luther King Jr. Activist groups around the country are trying to honor King's death, which came in Memphis as he was helping out garbagemen in a strike, to speak out for working people this week.
the report here.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.