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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...
Oil-Backed Conservatives Try To Kill Green Jobs Effort
For more on how we can fight for green jobs, hear Rep. Chris Murphy, United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Scott Paul and Leo Hindery, Jr. at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. Oil-backed Republicans are doing...
GOP Candidates Not Far Apart on Social Security
For more on how we can save Social Security from conservative attacks, hear Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Campaign for America's Future's Roger Hickey, Strengthen Social Security's Eric Kingson and more at the Take Back the American Dream conference, Oct. 3-5. At least some of...
The Winning Message Time For The Rich To Pay It Forward
This has been posted all over the progressive blogosphere by now, but it bears reposting and repeating. Elizabeth Warren, who was passed over to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — her own brainchild — is now a candidate for the Massachusetts Senate seat...
The Presidents Big Chance And His Big Choice
This is it. This is the opportunity that Barack Obama has been waiting for. He finally has the chance to push for policies that are popular with Republicans and independents as well as with Democrats. This is his "post-partisan" moment. But there's a catch: These...
