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Progressive Breakfast - 5/17/2011
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 Street,...
Wall Street Guilty As Charged
In a piece called "Wall Street: Not Guilty," financial columnist Roger Lowenstein attempts to defend Wall Street against allegations that it's a viper's nest of rampant criminality. His mischaracterization, mockery, and vague suggestions of McCarthyism are strident,...
Has ObamaCare Begun The Undoing Of The Republican Party
The President's health reform law has mostly been considered a political liability for him and his party, especially since it failed to keep Congress in control of the Democrats. But the events of the past few days suggests Republicans are experiencing an internal...
Whats On the Table
In case you were wondering what's "on the table" in the phony baloney debt ceiling "negotiations" this is what the Wall Street Journal is reporting today. I would take it with a grain of salt — these kinds of leaks are almost surely self-serving: People familiar with...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/16/2011
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: Stiffed By Our Top...
Actually The Rich Dont Create Jobs We Do
You hear it again and again, variation after variation on a core message: if you tax rich people it kills jobs. You hear about "job-killing tax hikes," or that "taxing the rich hurts jobs," "taxes kill jobs," "taxes take money out of the economy, "if you tax the rich...
Debt Crisis Really
You think we have a debt crisis now? You should have seen the one Canada had in 1993!!! And just like this one, it was phony, designed to scare people into cutting and privatizing government so the rich can get even richer. The following is from The Shock Doctrine,...
Brinksmanship for Dummies
It's one thing for the Republicans and centrist Democrats to defy their voters. But is there anyone on the planet who believes hey are really going to defy these guys? Sixty-two business groups, including the American Gas Association, the Telecommunications Industry...
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: Forget Raj: "Too...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/13/2011
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: Forget Raj: "Too...
