Kate Sheppard

It was refreshing to see It was refreshing to see The Washington Post point out today that John McCain‘s so-called “plan for the working class” consists mostly of benefits for corporations and the rich. The speech he gave yesterday – the most comprehensive outline of his economic policy thus far – was centered on plans […]

The State Department sent out a press briefing from Dana Perino confirming the rumor that George Bush will be making an announcement about climate change policy this afternoon. Don’t go getting too excited though. From the press briefing: The President will make an announcement regarding his representatives at the Major Economies Meeting identifying long term […]

April 22 is April 22 is Equal Pay Day, and to mark it Hillary Clinton has launched a “Make Change Count” campaign. Part of the campaign is a wage gap calculator, which demonstrates that though it’s been 45 years since the Equal Pay Act was signed, there’s still a huge salary disparity between men and […]

The The McCain campaign just sent out a Tax Day email to supporters pledging that, as president, he’ll make sure they get to keep more of their money and stop the dirty liberals from spending it all on poor people. And the only way to ensure that he’ll be their president is to hand over […]

Zephyrus made a comment on my post yesterday that made me laugh, and also made me wonder about what the Republican message machine will do with the latest development in continued analysis of Barack Obama‘s religion. The tension: Obama is a covert Muslim, a double agent in the clash of civilizations! err… Obama is a […]

John Dickerson offers what is by far the best analysis of Barack Obama‘s “bitter” comment that I’ve seen thus far, parsing out what he probably meant, and why that won’t at all matter to the types of voters he’s offended. There are two very important points. One, which he notes as a mere parenthetical, is […]

It seems like so long ago when the Republican presidential candidates were battling to be the It seems like so long ago when the Republican presidential candidates were battling to be the most anti-immigrant in order to win the nomination. But then John McCain won and it turned out that immigration might not be that […]

Rumor has it that George Bush “is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.” Perhaps he’s fired up about Earth Day next week and finally ready to commit to policy that actually addresses climate change. Or perhaps they’re concerned […]

The Family Research Council just sent out an email asking folks to take part in their “Reconciliation Referendum” marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s assassination. It’s only a week and a half late, but I guess we should take what we can get from FRC. This line of the email, however, got […]

Barack Obama also spoke at the Associated Press annual meeting today, and started out by making light of the weekend’s kerfluffle: I know I kept a lot of you guys busy this weekend with the comments I made last week. Some of you might even be a little bitter about that. He went on to […]