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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...
The Fundamental Divide Is Between Trimming Medicare And Ending Medicare
So Jonathan Chait thinks we should give the Lieberman-Coburn "Ryan Lite" plan to destroy Medicare a chance. I'll let you read the article to decide if it makes any sense to you or if it sounds more like it should be a satire: As Sargent notes, Republicans are already...
States Face An Unhappy Fiscal New Year
July 1 starts the fiscal new year in many states around the country, and thanks to economic policies pushed by conservative governors or state legislatures, combined with gridlock at the federal level, many of these states will set in motion policies that will make...
