WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans – You gotta love this – a total political meltdown in real time, on TV and social media, and on the front pages of every paper in America. There’s a countdown similar to the Iranian hostage crisis where the days Americans were held was calendared daily across the country, but this time it’s …
New Orleans – The US House of Representatives continues to be paralyzed, hostage to a rump band of twenty or so who have come together to deny Republican majority leader Kevin McCarthy the speaker’s chair. McCarthy has now endured two days and six votes, while failing to win. My basic view is a pox on …
Mexico City – It took one-hundred years, but the newly elected Republican majority proved emphatically that the deep divisions in the country were not just red versus blue, Republicans versus Democrats, but even Republicans against Republicans, as they failed to elected a Speaker of the House of Representatives after the first three ballots. For all of …