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Republicans Battling Windmills Instead of Budgeting
The question that everyone should be asking is: Why is the House GOP only proposing a short-term continuing resolution? This should be the moment when either individual appropriations or a full-year CR at the start of the year is not just easy to do but actually gets...
Rich People and Corporations The GOPs Trillion-Dollar Failed Stimulus
"Class warfare!" Whenever you heard those words, it's a pretty sure bet whoever's saying them is the one who's really conducting class warfare. And that you're the target. The Fast and the Spurious The Republican responses to President Obama's moderate plan for jobs...
The End of the Middle Class
The following was originally published in Politico. Finally, Washington has turned its attention back to jobs. With President Barack Obama’s demand that Congress pass his American Jobs Act and his call on the supercommittee to push hard on 10-year deficit reduction, a...
Newts Big Fail How He Couldnt Lead Conservatives Into Taking Climate Change Seriously
Newt Gingrich is supposed to be the intellectual leader of the conservative movement. Yet his fellow conservatives were completely uninterested in following his lead away from denying climate science and towards climate solutions. In fact, today's conservatives are...
Stealing the Redistricting Process
Late last month, four men chosen by the Mecklenburg County Commissioners (North Carolina) to serve on a bi-partisan panel to study and recommend new voting district boundaries decided instead to undermine the process of which they’d agreed to be a part. Without notice...
Five Progressive Tax Increases that Washington Wont Talk About
Ten years ago today, the first Bush tax cuts were signed into law. The fiscal damage they have inflicted is still unparalleled. But while the tax cuts for the top 2 percent of American earners will stay off the table until December 2012, there is any number of other...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/20/2011
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: Both Sides Fail...
Our Modern Family
On Sunday, the sit-com Modern Family won a well-deserved five Emmy awards, including one for best comedy series. I’m a fan of the show, but can’t help thinking that it is a double-edged sword. The show depicts three inter-connected families who reflect a rich, 21st...
Conservatives Should Be Called Out On Unfair Failed Policies
President Obama's address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for "shared sacrifice" to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the...
Obama Deficit Speech - What My Wife Heard
I watched President Obama's "deficit speech" this morning. My wife was listening from another room. She does not follow politics as closely as you and I do. The only thing she heard was "Medicare cuts." Why was Medicare in a speech about raising taxes on the rich?...
