Compelled to compromise, Obama and Dems can’t win

When Barack Obama ran for president, in 2008, he spoke of ending the Bush era tax-cuts for the upper two percent of earners, of bringing an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, of allowing the most draconian aspects of the Patriot Act to end and of ending the cultural divide over decades-old social…

Finally someone takes a stand for the middle class – Organized Labor

"Our role is not to build the power of a political party or a candidate. It’s to improve the lives of working families and strengthen our economy, our country." - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, in a speech to the National Press Club, May 20, 2011 You can call it the "Trumka Doctrine." During a panel…