Nancy Pelosi labels budget-cutting Republicans the 'E. Coli Club'
"Sadly, Pelosi's E. coli remark isn't hyperbole. There was a time just a bit over a century ago when many Republicans, including President Teddy Roosevelt, took a different view of things. During that 20-year-long era, progressive legislation was passed to break up corporate trusts, extend rights to workers and do thing that today we take for granted, like inspecting food. The dominance of corporate money both in economics and politics, the attacks on workers' rights and cutbacks even in what is spent on making sure our food is safe illustrates just how retrograde the Republicans have been."
