New Orleans You don’t expect Karl Rove to be the voice of reason for Republicans, given his role as the master political operative between the two Bush presidencies, but these days you have embrace whatever help you can find. In this case, Rove was writing a “sober up” memo to the Republican faithful and trying …
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Politics are Local, but Impact is National
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wadesworld24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The old saw that “all politics are local,” has a lot of merit, but added up, the impact in national. That is alternately both a depressing and hopeful sign in the tea leaves still gathering from the midterm election. The Republicans took the Senate. Impossible …
Organized Labor Speaking Without One Voice
New Orleans It is one thing when we all know the king has no clothes on, but it’s a whole different problem when Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and its op-ed pages broadcasts it far and wide. While we watch the Koch Brothers drive an ideological machinery pushing businesses to hew the line politically hard …