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61 House Republicans Co-Sponsored China Currency Bill Now Side With China
Last week, in These Are The House Republicans Blocking The Crackdown On China Currency Manipulation. Call Them. I named 61 House Republicans who had co-sponsored the China currency bill, but who now side with China by refusing to help force a vote on the bill. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/19/2011
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: GOP Debate: Seven...
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: GOP Debate: Seven...
Republican Debate Seven Dwarfs Too Small For America
What a mean group of people! But, then again, you knew that. Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate was often more caffeinated than usual, but aside from that it was the usual. All of the Republican candidates have one thing in common: They want to make...
Higher Taxes On The Working Poor and Middle Class Why Conservatives Have Lost Their Minds And The Public
Over the weekend, NYTimes.com featured a Bloggingheads.tv discussion I had with Kristen Soltis of the Independent Women's Forum about the conservative response to the "We Are The 99%" mantra of the Occupy Wall Street protests: "We Are The 53%." After hearing the...
Balanced Budget Amendment is Nothing More Than Fiscal Prohibition
Originally published on Capital Gains and Games. If you watched any one of the three episodes of “Prohibition,” Ken Burns’ excellent PBS series about the attempt in the early part of the 20th century to ban alcoholic consumption in the United States, it’s impossible...
Madder At Washington Than Wall Street Wall Streets The Reason
A USA Today/Gallup poll published this morning suggests that "most Americans blame Wall Street for the nation's economic predicament — but they blame Washington more." Furthermore, when specifically asked who they blame most for the poor state of the economy, "64% of...
No Apocalypse But A Chance to Resurrect Progressive Radio
I'm filing this one under "Things I'd Do If I Won The Lottery." It's a long list. The only problem with it is that I never play the lottery, because "buying lottery tickets is an irrational act — the odds are hugely stacked against us." So, I've never won the...
Occupy Wall Street Speaks For America A Centrist Hit Jobs Polling Data Helps Prove It
Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the American majority. We've got the polling numbers to prove it. We now know where the real center...
Barney Frank Connects Defense Cuts Drive To Occupy Movement
INTERVIEW Hear Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., talk about his push for defense spending cuts and the ability of the Occupy movement to influence the debate. Rep. Barney Frank is ratcheting up his longstanding push to reduce federal defense spending with a series of town...
