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Dont Be Fooled By Side Issues CR Fight Is Fiscal Terrorism By GOP
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Just a reminder as the House and Senate resume the battle ("negotiating" just doesn't fit this situation) today over the continuing resolution: the issue that really should be the focus is the length of time this CR will...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/26/2011
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: Obama's Tax Plan...
What Actual Job Creators Really Want
Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words "job creators." We know what's coming—and there's a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and...
Keeping Hope Alive
Here's the president yesterday: The bridge behind us happens to connect the state that is home to the Speaker of the House, with the home state of the Republican leader in the Senate... Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, those are the two most powerful Republicans in...
Supporting The Troops
It's getting hard to keep track of all the cringe-worthy moments at the GOP debates. To that end I've created a kind "Low-lights" reel of such moments from the last few. (I fully expect to update this regularly.) The latest, of course, is the booing of a gay...
Judging the Republican Debate With My Handy Bush-o-Meter
Watching the Republican presidential primary debate last night, I heard many of the candidates say they'd be the second coming of Ronald Reagan. But what they said sounded a lot more like the second coming of George W. Bush, he of the "worst jobs record on record"...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/23/2011
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: Another...
ANOTHER Hostage-Taking Threat To Shut Down Government
Just weeks after the "debt-ceiling" hostage-taking, forcing trillions to be cut out of the economy, the hostage-takers are at it again. Now they are threatening a government shutdown, demanding even more cuts in the "continuing resolution" that keeps the government...
Solyndra Controversy a Transparent Attempt to Kill Green Energy
David Dayen will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington, D.C., from Oct. 3 to 5. The following was originally published at FireDogLake. Conservatives are pushing very hard to punish the White House over loan...
Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra
Oil-backed conservatives have been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, because they think they can turn this into a story that makes President Obama and...
