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Defending MN Gov Mark Dayton The Man Who Is Willing To Compromise
“Compromise requires all of us to agree to items that we don’t agree with,” Governor Mark Dayton, May 16, 2011. The Minnesota government has officially been shut down after budget negotiations failed to produce a state budget. There will be no trips to Fort Snelling...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/5/2011
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: War of...
Bachmannia The 2012 Epidemic & Beyond
Remember Sarah Palin? I know she hasn't really gone anywhere (except back home to Alaska until her bus tour resumes, on some date known only to her and possibly her staff), hope as we may that she will some day. No, I mean remember Sarah Palin circa 2008, after her...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/1/2011
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: Will Dems Embrace...
Will Democrats Embrace a Foul Deal
We now have sorry news of the foul deal that the White House is pushing in the debt ceiling talks. About $1.5 trillion in spending cuts -- including $200-300 billion from Medicare and Medicaid -- in exchange for $130 billion in loophole closings -- corporate jets,...
The Social Security Chain-CPI Massacre Underhanded Unnecessary Unfair Un-American
Do you hear a noise like power saws cutting away at your Social Security benefits? That's the sound of the politicians working on the "Chain Gang." They're promoting the "chained CPI," Washington's latest gimmick for tricking voters and cutting their hard-earned...
Goodbye Good Riddance To Education Bipartisanship
Earlier this week, when a representative of the Beltway-based
This July 4 Let’s Hail a Patriot Not Yet in the Pantheon
A decade into a staggeringly unequal 21st century United States, historians have rediscovered a long-forgotten Revolutionary War hero who stirred men’s souls with a remarkably far-sighted egalitarian vision. George Washington. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Robert...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/30/2011
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: Holding The...
Is it Politics
New York Sen. Charles Schumer spoke today at the Economic Policy Institute about the need for Congress and the White House-Republican budget deficit talks to focus on America's most important issue of the day: job creation. "The view that Congress should focus on jobs...
