by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Medicare Buy-In Expected To Be Dropped From Deal Medicare buy-in about to be jettisoned from Senate deal. USA Today: "Senate Democrats said Monday they are...
by Bill Scher | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The hot You Tube of the day -- dug up by The Plum Line, and spreading like wildfire -- is Sen. Joe Lieberman supporting the expansion of Medicare to 55-64 year-olds ... a mere three months before he announced his opposition to it yesterday. Of course, Lieberman needs...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Those advocating capitualtion on trade and manufacturing are hard at work. From the National Journal's Congress Daily today, Trade Restraint? Those who follow U.S.-Chinese trade frictions must be working overtime these days. The number of high-profile trade complaints...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The $149 billion number - the amount of revenue the CBO estimates the excise tax will bring in - has becoming gospel in Washington. But there's a very good chance the number is overstated, possibly by tens of billions of dollars, and the mistake seems to have been...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The battle to resist the excise tax continue, with a front line of resistance forming in the House and Senate. Efforts include the movement to drum up support for the Sanders-Franken-Brown Amendment, which replaces it with a high-earner tax similar to that contained...
