by Robert Borosage | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
In The Washington Post, columnist Matt Miller gleefully notes the parallels between President Obama’s campaign and that of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign. Then, Republican opponent Bob Dole was lashed to the radical then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
Score one for the good guys: After being pressured by Color of Change and other progressive groups, Coca-Cola has left ALEC - the cynical corporate coalition that has pushed a bevy of anti-democratic, anti-middle class, and anti-consumer initiatives. Now that Coke's...
by Bill Scher | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
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: How The GOP Budget...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2012 | Blog
Well, as the saying goes, "It's all over but the shouting." Having slogged through a primary process that felt even longer than it was, it looks like Republicans finally have a nominee to go mano-a-mano with Barack Obama come November. Around ten o'clock last night,...
by | Apr 4, 2012 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
During the 2008 campaign Rick Perlstein offered some important advice to Democrats on how to steal GOP rhetoric, advice that they have, so far, failed to heed: Reagan didn't praise FDR. He stole from him. As in, "This generation has a rendez vous with destiny." We...
