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Shiny Happy Corporate People
Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that "corporations are people." He did not go on to sing that Patti Smith song, People Have the Power. But corporate "people" certainly do. Their power was on display this week, both in...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/12/2011
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: Super Committee of...
The People Beg To Differ Mr Romney Corporations Arent People
The political world is abuzz with a heat-of-the-moment comment by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that is starkly revealing. Here's how The Huffington Post reported it: Pressed by an attendee at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as to why he was focusing...
The Economy of Desperation Pt 1 The Sugar Daddy Solution
In the new economy, we may all need a "sugar daddy." And, no, I don't mean the candy. "People will find a way," has been Republicans' constant refrain for the past year or so, in their ceaseless targeting vital programs and services for deep cuts,...
Heres A Deficit To Worry About
Washington is in a Fox News tizzy about budget deficits. But even though the budget deficits were clearly caused by tax cuts for the rich, huge military spending increases and the effects of the lack of jobs, ideas for fixing those are the very things that are "off...
Englands Ashes - Our Future
Hopefully the worst of the violence is over in Great Britain. London's fires are cooling into ashes, and with any luck they won't be rekindled. But even though the British economy is still a tinderbox, nothing that's happened has dampened some people's enthusiasm for...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/11/2011
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: England's Ashes....
Shock Doctrine II The Courage Con
The establishment campaign to use the economic crisis to cut Social Security and Medicare continues to escalate. Helene Cooper in New York Times offers up a new theme: If the president is courageous and puts country before campaign, he'll "administer the disagreeable...
What We Won In Wisconsin
Ignore the chest-thumping from the right following the Wisconsin recall elections Tuesday night. The fact that Democratic challengers prevailed in two of the six races, and came within less than 1,100 votes of unseating a third in a race where almost 51,000 votes were...
Wisconsin
At this point in the evening, two Democratic wins out of six in the recalls and a lot of questions about a third (coming down to the same Republican activist who was suspected of rigging the Supreme Court election last April.) Remember that these were all GOP...
