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Progressive Breakfast - 11/23/2011
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: Tax The Rich ......
Super Committee Out Of Way - Now Back To Reality
Let's hope that the failure of the "super committee" quest to take money out of the economy clears the media mist for a minute, so people can focus on real issues that matter to real people. What are the chances of that? Will our government now focus on creating jobs,...
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: No Deal. Good. Now...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/22/2011
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: No Deal. Good. Now...
Superfail 7 Amazing Supercommittee Headlines Youll Never See
Discussion of the "Super Committee" debacle continues to misguide and misinform the public in an all-too-familiar way. Once again the consensus in the media and among political leaders reflects the misperceptions of an insular Washington culture, rather than the...
A Quick Word About Deficits
I just wanted to say a few quick things about deficits and the "super committee." 1) Never forget that 11 years ago we had a huge budget surplus and were on track to pay off the entire debt in 10 years. Then came the Bush tax cuts for the rich and a huge military...
Meet the One Percent And the 99 Percent
Being in the 99 percent, and living in Washington, DC, is to live and work in close proximity to the 1 percent. (Especially if you work in Capitol Hill.) When you do so on a daily basis, it's easy to forget that — as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote — "The...
No Deal Is The Best Deal
I'll just let Bernie Sanders explain it to Wolf Blitzer, who appears to be extremely confused by the fact that someone might have liberal principles. In fairness, it's not something he hears every day. Usually, it's a Democrat explaining that he or she is more than...
Grover Norquist Was The Super Committees Lex Luthor And Other Stories
Originally posted a Capital Gains and Games. Two things if you're at all surprised that the anything-but-super committee is going to announce today that it has been unable to agree on a deficit reduction plan and so is going out of business. First, you weren't reading...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/21/2011
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: America's Affluent...
