Brian Dockstader
| Hometown: | Washington, DC |
| Interests: | An Economy for All, Health Care for All, New Energy, The Big Con, Quality Education, Real Security, Social Security, Making Sense, America's Future Now, Invest In America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy |
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Brian's Voice
- July 29, 2011 - 3:26pm
Speaker John Boehner is having a heckuva time getting his very-right-wing caucus to support any debt ceiling increase that wasn't written on a stone tablet by Ayn Rand herself. What is really striking about the process of trying to appeal to the Republican caucus, however, is what they actually view as "good" things and "bad" things.
- July 27, 2011 - 11:38am
How do you fire up a crowd of congressional Republicans to get them to blindly cast really really bad votes? Easy, just show them a clip from a violent movie! HELL YEAH!!
- June 3, 2011 - 1:46pm
I thought my outrage meter was about pegged today after learning that coal companies are essentially bribing schools to lie to children about fossil fuels (e.g.
- May 23, 2011 - 5:28pm
It's clear Elizabeth Warren is the most qualified person to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But no one is arguing otherwise. Republicans aren't saying that she isn't qualified or capable. No, the opposition to her comes from the exact opposite position: Republicans oppose Elizabeth Warren because she is too good at her job. And that has them (and the big lenders they represent) running scared.
- April 4, 2011 - 11:10am
April 4 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, murdered in 1968 while fighting for the rights of striking Memphis sanitation workers. This event is brilliantly chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, At the River I Stand.
- November 3, 2010 - 2:20pm
A favorite pastime of post-election analysts and pundits is to parse, re-parse, and re-re-parse exit polls and other data to draw out interesting demographic and historical notes. One such data point struck me in particular:
Who's to blame for the economy? Bankers (34%), Bush (29%), Obama (24%). Of those who blame bankers, Republicans hold an 11 point advantage.
- March 9, 2010 - 11:46am
Did you hear the big news? Yesterday on his show, Rush Limbaugh vowed that he would leave the country if health care reform passes!
- January 12, 2010 - 4:30pm
When Sen. Arlen Specter switched from the GOP to the Democratic Party early last year, citing the Republican Party's extreme shift to the far-right in recent years, many progressives found themselves in mixed emotions.
- January 8, 2010 - 12:05pm
I generally try to avoid watching political talk shows on TV because the lack of journalism is, much more often than not, infuriating. That wasn't exactly the case the other night on Hardball, however.
