The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Senator Who Owns Stock in Coal Utilities is Fighting EPA Carbon Rules
Millionaire senator David Vitter just released an report designed to skewer the EPA, but he forgot to mention that he stands to lose economically if the proposed Obama's carbon rules are implemented.
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Three Demands to Congress: Student Loans, Glass-Steagall & a Financial Transaction Tax
People rule in a democracy. Not Wall Street, not banks, not money. This is something apparently forgotten by Congress.
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How Big Oil and the GOP Subverted American Democracy
Morally twisted right-wing orthodoxy has taken the “conserve” out of conservatism, as GOP honchos' knee jerk slavishness to petroleum interests have infected America.
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Defanging Dodd-Frank To Protect Wall Street Vampires
The House Committee on Financial Services passed a package of bills that would overturn derivatives regulations set in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
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Is Your Money Safe in a "Too Big to Fail" Bank?
The next crisis will likely be due to the staggering derivatives trade: the current exposure in derivatives at "too big to fail" banks exceeds the total world's gross domestic product.
