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Progressive Breakfast
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: The Stakes In Today's Buffett Rule Vote
Progressive Breakfast - 4/16/2012
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: The Stakes In Today's Buffett Rule Vote
The Stakes In The Buffett Rule Vote
The Senate is scheduled today to vote on Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's "Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012," which seeks to enshrine into law the "Buffett Rule" that millionaires and billionaires should not be paying taxes at a lower rate than the people who work for them.
The National Manufacturing Strategy Debate
President Obama has been pushing policies to boost American manufacturing.
All Mobbed Up
This story about the potential merging of the Republican Super PACs is downright chilling:
Progressive Breakfast - 4/13/2012
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: The Worst Goldman Sachs Settlement Yet
Progressive Breakfast
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: The Worst Goldman Sachs Settlement Yet
The Latest SECGoldman Sachs Sweetheart Deal Is the Worst One Yet
The sweetheart deals just keep coming. Lawbreakers at one bank after another are let off the hook as their shareholders write a check. And then they go out and repeat the illegal behavior they promised not to do in the last settlement.
Chris Christie The Heartless Smug Bullying Embodiment of the Republican Party
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is the embodiment of today's Republican Party and everything it has come to represent. You name it, Christie's got it: Disingenuous, smug, nasty? Check. Robotic servant of the corporate class, foisting its lobbyists' prefabricated laws on an unsuspecting public? Check. Hostile toward women? Double-check.
Grim Reality Media Misses The Point Of The Buffett Rule Fight
This will make you long for the mythical days of "liberal media bias."
A news story in The Washington Post this morning bashes the current debate around the Buffett rule in a classic case of conservative media bias.
