{"article":{"id":242011,"heading":"The `Rightwing Backlash' That Never Was","author":"Mark Weisbrot","created":"2010-09-25 19:07:31","modified":"2013-11-11 01:05:37","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:05:37","article":"

\"It is not so hard to make this appeal: millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs, while the Wall Street gang [11] who sank the economy are once again raking in billions – and only because they have been rescued and subsidised with hundred of billions of our taxpayer dollars. If enough Democrats campaign on these kinds of themes and offer a populist alternative, they could keep both houses of congress.\"

to read Mark Weisbrot's article published in: The Guyardian\/UK September 22, 2010, click on

http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/print\/60632<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":""Obama himself had eschewed economic populism in his campaign (making an exception in midwestern primaries such as Wisconsin [8] where he needed more working-class support in order to win), in keeping with his carefully cultivated media image of post-partisan conciliator. But the economy did the job for him, and for the Democratic party."\r\n\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2010\/09\/242011.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}