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No Dice to Medicaid Cuts
I have long felt that it was unlikely that the President would allow substantial cuts to health care programs, since it is his signature issue. But since everyone in DC has come down with Deficit Fever, I've become a little bit worried that he might be coerced into...
Senate Budget Vote A Defining One For The Middle Class
Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, a roll call vote that some Republicans were not-so-secretly dreading began, and the public began to know the names of the senators who were willing to throw the middle class under the luxury bus for the corporate class that is the 2012...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/26/2011
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: Senate Budget Vote...
Medicare And New York 26 Will Change The Budget Debate
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Pete Davis' Capital Gains and Games post on Tuesday about not being able to draw a conclusion about the results in the special election held in New York to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Chris Lee resigned is...
NY-26 Lesson Dont Mess With Medicare -- or Social Security
In 2010 Republicans and corporate front groups ran ad after ad after ad after ad claiming that Democrats had "Cut 500 billion from Medicare." Those ads brought them the senior vote, and they took the House. Confident in their ability to "create their own reality" they...
A Better Life (or Why Im Still Not Moving to Canada)
Remember back in 2004, when Dubya won re-election and liberals started threatening to move to Canada? Well, maybe I should have considered it. Because according to OECD's Better Life Index, Canada is where I belong. But, I'm still not moving to Canada. Hows Life?...
The Elizabeth Warren Hearing Live Tweeting
Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury Elizabeth Warren is now testifying to a House Oversight subcommittee, pitting America's best middle-class champion against conservative defenders of unregulated banks who don't want her to...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/25/2011
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: Wall St. Goon...
As Republicans Declare War On Bank Customers A Call to Support Warren
A group of Democratic representatives has joined consumer groups- along with prominent figures like Dr. Phil (yes, that Dr. Phil) - in calling on the President to make a "recess appointment" of Elizabeth Warren. That will allow her to get to work running the new...
Choose Your Financial Future Be Daniel Or Be Eaten
When Elizabeth Warren, the White House adviser who is setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went to speak before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning, one of the things she compared the visit to was the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den....
