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The High Cost of Low Wages
Republicans have cooled on Texas governor Rick Perry as their great white hope for 2012, but their desire to make the rest of the country look more like Texas — economically, that is — hasn't. In fact, it's hotter than ever. Despite the fact that Texas leads the...
Buy American At The Take Back The American Dream Conference
At next week's Take Back The American Dream conference I'm on the Tuesday panel titled Strategy on State Level for Buy America Campaign. Please stop by if you are at the conference. Buy American in government procurement is not a partisan issue. Polls show that people...
The American Dream Needs An Independent Movement
On Monday's "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann", Robert Borosage discussed the need for an independent progressive movement to wrest power from the entrenched financial interests that obstruct transformational change, and how that movement will come together at the...
Fear Of Their Lowest Common Denominator
President Obama took an unusual public stand against the behavior of Republican rank and file this week-end when he condemned their behavior at the debates: “Some of you here may be folks who actually used to be Republicans but are puzzled by what’s happened to that...
Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money. This follows a story in the...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/28/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Strategy of Barely Functioning Government OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "Congressional Republicans may not be replicating the disastrous shutdown strategy of their Newt Gingrich-led predecessors from two decades ago, but they are slyly executing...
Message From A Mugging Respond To The Youth Crisis
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the...
Another Fake Shutdown Crisis The GOP Strategy Of Barely Functioning Government
No government shutdown. No workers forced to take unpaid furlough. No additional blow to our struggling economy. Another crisis averted. Right? Not quite. Congressional Republicans may not be replicating the disastrous shutdown strategy of their Newt Gingrich-led...
Class Warfare Smackdown Bachmann vs Warren
Another GOP debate has rolled around (and another clip has been added to the "Low-Lights" reel from my previous post). This time it wasn't just the audience response that should have been embarrassing to any sane political party, but a candidate's...
Republicans Cheer That Labor Leaders Murdered In Colombia
Hundreds of executions in Texas -- Republican crowd cheers. An uninsured person in a coma -- Republican crowd shouts "Let him die!" And now, labor leaders murdered in Colombia -- Republicans say "A good start..." See the comments under an article at The Hill about how...
