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Ignorance Index IV Job-Killing DE-regulation
House Speaker John Boehner and his Tea Party comrades regularly assail “job-killing regulations that are strangling employers all over the country.” Lurid, graphic, and no doubt focus group and message dial tested, these very words – job-killing regulations strangling...
Ignorance Index I The Tax Lie
Conservatives say they are prepared to blow up the economy by not lifting the debt limit if that is what it takes to avoid raising taxes on the rich – even to avoid closing loopholes that have hedge fund billionaires paying a lower tax rate than their chauffeurs. Tax...
Shadows and Light
Want to be a cynic? You've got plenty of material to work with, that's for sure. But if you want to be an idealist, a practical idealist who can get things done, cynicism would be a tragic mistake. Lately all I've been hearing — and, frankly, most of what I've been...
GOP Leaders Throw Their Hands Up
Sen. Claire McCaskill says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has "lost his mind", indicated by his convoluted plan to escape negotiations around raising the debt ceiling, and his apparent renunciation of politics and elections because "Nothing has...
Jobs Bill Plus Bipartisan Support Plus Chamber of Commerce Plus AFL-CIO Equals Nothing
If this jobs bill can't pass today's Congress, and apparently it can't, then nothing will. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) teamed up to introduce a bill creating an independent infrastructure bank. To allay conservative concerns about...
Ignorance Index III The Revenue Problem
“.. Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem,” says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). All Republican legislators have been taught to chant this tired Republican “talking point” as if it were the Hare Krishna mantra. To borrow one...
Act Now Call-In To Save Social Security
Today and Friday we're asking everyone to call their senators today and tell them to oppose cuts in Social Security and end the raid of Social Security funds to give corporations another tax break. The number you can use to call is 1-866-251-4044, courtesy of the...
Progressive Breakfast
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: Ignorance Index...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/14/2011
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: Ignorance Index...
How Is British Austerity Working Out
The conservative government in England is trying austerity. They are using the shock-doctrine tactic of drumming up public hysteria over bad news - in this case the financial collapse and resulting downturn - and using the panic as cover to quickly impose radical...
