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The Test For Republicans Confirm Cordray
Today President Barack Obama nominated Robert Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Robert Cordray has proven to be an effective defender of consumer rights. And Elizabeth Warren he is not, to the relief of congressional Republicans, the banking...
Elizabeth Warrens Choice Politics or Independence
Elizabeth Warren's well-heeled opponents have behaved ... well, like heels. The Washington/Wall Street axis prevented her from becoming the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but they may regret it someday. Washington has lost the best person...
Ignorance Index V The Spending Problem
Conservatives argue that America has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. We earlier dispelled the myth that Americans – particularly wealthy Americans – pay too much in taxes. Now let’s look at the spending question. Part 5 in a series of...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/18/2011
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. The UK Holds Its Corporations...
Can US Hold Corporations Accountable Anymore
In the UK the News-Of-The-World/News Corp/Murdoch scandal seems to be reawakening democracy. A big, powerful corporation has been found to be engaged in criminal activity, manipulating news, paying off police and politicians, and generally getting its way. The people,...
Lawrence ODonnell Is Completely Wrong About Deficits and Entitlements [video clip]
On most issues Lawrence O'Donnell is on the side of the angels. But O'Donnell, who held senior staff positions on Capitol Hill during the 1990's, is one of many Democrats and liberals who think the way to fix today's problems is by recycling yesterday's solutions -...
Hills GOP Pack Nips At Elizabeth Warrens Heels Again [video clip & commentary]
While hosting The Young Turks this week we covered the latest interrogation of Elizabeth Warren by House Republicans, who are determined to make sure that she -- and the bureau charged with protecting consumer from bank ripoffs - are discredited. The headline...
The Tea Party Wants What It Wants When It Wants It Or Else
"I want what I want when I want it." Those are Eric Cantor's words. No, they're not words he said recently, but words he chose years ago, for his high school yearbook quote. And while it may seem unfair to bring them up now (After all, how many of us said or...
Lessons From Greed
Conservatives say greed is a good thing. But the lessons of history, religion, philosophy, psychology and even biology say it is not. I am visiting England this week. Today I'm in York, and I toured the York Minstrel which is a huge 13th-century cathedral. Down in...
Does China Deserve a Seat at the Debt Ceiling Talks
Enjoying the debt ceiling talks? The posturing, petulance, brinksmanship, bluffing? Well, let me make it a little bit more nauseating: China has pulled up a seat at the table. China’s leaders have been weighing in nearly every day, reminding the U.S. of its...
