Both the Democrats and the GOP are out of touch with regular Americans; this election said that "real leadership will have to come from elsewhere, from outside of Washington...."

The original sin of Obama's presidency was to assign economic policy to a closed circle of bank-friendly economists and Bush carryovers. Larry Summers. Timothy Geithner. Ben Bernanke.

The White House invertebrates are deliberately myopic.

Smart move by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) "pounces on Olbermann suspension as a means to oppose NBC-Comcast merger.

Good luck to the people of Texas, Ohio, and Wisconsin: New GOP governors in OH and WI kill $1.2 billion in high speed rail jobs while TX GOP guv proposes letting states opt out of Social Security.

Bernanke a pathetic Fed chair, endlessly repeating mistakes that are hurting regular Americans....but Obama likes him, but just like Obama's stimulus was too small, Bernanke's "bond spree is just not enough."

"Not only does the administration claim to have sweeping power to target and kill U.S. citizens anywhere in the world, but it makes the extraordinary claim that the court has no role in reviewing that power or the legal standards that apply,"

"The Tea Party is not a new phenomenon. It's simply a new name for an old phenomenon – the American hard right."

Obama could, like FDR, create millions of jobs by executive order;  instead, we got the  government’s statement last Friday that the US economy gained 151,000 payroll jobs during October.  Unfortunately, those were "phantom jobs."

Say it ain't so:  "Not only is rumored CFPB candidate Melissa Bean as industry-friendly as they come, but her ex-chief of staff has lobbied for finance reform's biggest enemies."  Obama must be truly daft.