Articles Tagged “House Speaker John Boehner”
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We Are Your Constituency, Not The NRA
BY VERN TURNER An open letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker John Boehner and other elected lawmakers: Yes, I heard/read the “response” by Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association. No one who has been paying attention should be surprised at the usual meme coming from someone who has never served in [...]
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Arithmetic For Republicans: Why Boehner’s ‘Offer’ Just Doesn’t Add Up
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Barack To Mitt: Corporations Run The Economy
BY RALPH NADER Here is an open letter that Barack Obama should write to Mitt Romney – pronto! Dear Mr. Romney: Not a day goes by without you blaming me for every slumping or stagnant economic indicator. Unemployment, increases in the number of food stamp recipients, government borrowing, and spending, home foreclosures, economic uncertainty for [...]
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The Shame Of America’s Two-Party Duopoly
BY RALPH NADER The Republican and Democratic Conventions are mercifully over but their corrosive impacts on our democracy persist. First, did you know that taxpayers helped fund these conventions at a level of $100 million for logistics and police sequestrations of demonstrators in Tampa and Charlotte and an additional $18.2 million each for general convention [...]
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Spending We Can Believe In
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