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Wisconsin -- It Could Be Your Future A Third Party Even Ground Zero for an American Spring
People watching the news over the past week might have thought that Congress was the only place where battles for our future were being won and lost. That's wrong. There are other battles, better battles, battles far from the glare of the Beltway spotlights. And more...
We Are Wisconsin And Were Already Winners
This morning Wisconsin voters will stream to the polls in a historic recall election that pits defenders of working people against six incumbents who backed a right-wing legislative assault on workers. It is not too late to give those working-class fighters a massive...
Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nations Debt But Then We Elected Obama
Just ten years ago this country was running huge surpluses and paying off its debt. But then we elected Obama and all hell broke loose. Oh, wait... Something Happened Between the time ten years ago when we had big surpluses and were paying off the debt and now when we...
Super Committee Appointments Loom Time Running Out To Make Your Voice Heard
The Huffington Post reported that Democratic leaders are "narrowing down the list" of who will be appointed to the so-called "Super Committee" designed to fast-track proposals to cut the deficit, including possible cuts to Social Security and Medicare. So time is...
Contract for the American Dream And The Emergency Jobs Bill
Rebuild The Dream As I wrote earlier in Ten Years Ago We Were Paying Off The Nation's Debt. But Then We Elected Obama., the The American Dream Movement is rolling out their Contract for the American Dream. The Tea-Party-fascinated press is largely ignoring this, but...
The Great Teacher
Government is the great teacher of its people, by what it does and by what its leaders say. And no one has a larger pulpit than the President, as Barack Obama showed yesterday, when he summoned the media to broadcast comments as markets tanked across the world. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/9/2011
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: We Are Wisconsin,...
Progressives Taking Charge
The President has shown a talent for slowly but surely moving public opinion in the right direction on crucial policy points, then inexplicably giving those points away to his political opponents for little or nothing in return. According to last month’s Gallup poll,...
Full Faith And Credit (And Which S&P Tea Partier Is Whispering In Paul Ryans Ear)
When it happened, I said that we should wait and see what the markets do before making any assumptions about whether the S&P was credible in their latest "analysis." Sure enough, S&P downgrades US credit on Friday and on Monday morning investors rush to flee equities...
Poor Standards 4 Steps to Ending the Rating Agency Racket
There's been a great deal of complaining today about Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US government's creditworthiness, but the time for talking about credit rating agencies is long past. There are four steps that can be taken now to end the rating corporations'...
