Sanders: Wins and Losses in effort to make the Democratic Party platform more progressive

By Robert A. Vella In a media appearance on Sunday, Bernie Sanders explained what happened after his attempts to make Continue reading →

Bernie-nomics: How Sanders Wants to Handle the Economy

Does Bernie Sanders have a proposed economic platform for his presidential campaign? Sanders’s economic platform is his presidential campaign. The Vermont Continue reading →

Four months after their low-turnout election victory, Republicans ramp-up their Austerity agenda

By Robert A. Vella Four months ago, Republicans all across America won huge victories in the lowest voter turnout midterm Continue reading →

Here’s what’s in Paul Ryan and Patty Murray’s mini-budget deal

1. The total deal is $85 billion. About $45 billion of that replaces sequestration cuts in 2014. About $20 billion Continue reading →

GOP strategy shifts to calm growing political pressure while finding ways to appease the Tea Party

By Robert A. Vella With the political pressure heating up from Big Business to avoid a catastrophic financial default of Continue reading →

Obama’s Chained-CPI Social Security Cut is Smart Politics… For the GOP

The most misread — perhaps the proper word is “miscovered” — story of the current budget wrangling in Washington is Continue reading →

Will Voters Forgive Obama for Cutting Social Security?

President Obama has riled loyal Democrats by tossing Social Security onto the table in his poker game with Republicans. Not Continue reading →

Winners and losers in the White House budget

Every federal budget is an exercise in trade-offs — especially budgets that aim to shrunk the deficit. Some programs get pared back. Continue reading →