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Payroll Tax Situation Wont Be Resolved Until Next Week

I haven't yet seen a good scenario for how the stalemate between the House and Senate on the payroll tax extension will play out. The most common thought was making the rounds yesterday was that the House would give in to the Senate and agree on the Senate-demanded...

Cornered Tea Partiers Are Dangerous

I think this says it all: This is how they roll. They just don't believe in voting: House Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Wednesday to call up the Senate payroll tax bill by quickly gaveling today's pro forma session to a close. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick...

Progressive Breakfast - 12/22/2011

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: That $335 Million...

When Lessons From Education Reform Go Unlearned

One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gadhafi regime, the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and "The Oprah...

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