The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.