Americans for Political Change

Laws favoring the ultra-wealthy are nothing new in the United States. Lack of regulation and rampant speculation on Wall Street led to the market crash in 1929 and the subsequent “Great Depression.” The same could be said for the “Great Recession” in 2008. Unlike the Great Depression, where Congress put into place economic and regulatory protections to prevent such a calamity, our Congress has done almost nothing to prevent another Great Recession. And why has Congress done nothing? Ultra-wealthy special interests will not allow it, and Congress continues to pass laws favorable to the Wall Street crowd at the expense of 99% of Americans.

via Wall Street is ‘Easy Street’ for a Chosen Few.

Airline officials are trying to figure out if there is anything to be done after a Georgia congressman urinated into a cup on a flight from Washington to Atlanta on Thursday night.

Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Hartsfield Airport on Delta Flight 1717, got up to go to the bathroom after the mandatory half-hour when passengers must stay seated, but found the lavatories on the airplane occupied, his office and aviation sources said.

via Congressman Urinates in Cup on Plane – ABC News.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said, makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president’s Cabinet, let alone to hold the high office himself.

Sen. Harry Reid went further: Romney’s refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a dogcatcher.

They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should apply to them. The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records. Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some similar documentation of their tax liabilities in response to requests from McClatchy Newspapers over the last three months. Another 19 replied that they wouldn’t release the information, and the remainder never responded to the query.

via Most members of Congress keep their tax returns secret – Wire Lifestyle – The Sacramento Bee.