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The Tea Partys Bankrupt Values
Remember when I said the tea party has the potential to be the GOP's psycho ex-girlfriend? Well, Dana Milbank's latest column — about tea party activists attacking John Boehner, Paul Ryan and the GOP for not killing the hostage tying an increase in the debt ceiling to...
The Acela Economy More Misery For Millions More Millions For Misers
What do you do when the economy's a disaster, things are getting worse, and nobody seems to give gives a damn? What do you do? This country has been divided into two economies. One's the economy of Wall Street and corporate Manhattan, along with Washington's thriving...
Demand A Clean Debt Ceiling Bill With NO Conditions
Digby writes, in The GOP Wish List, that Democrats are practically begging Republicans to make demands using the country's urgent need for a debt ceiling increase as a hostage, And why not? As long as the Democrats are pretending that they have to do whatever 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: Washington Ignores...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/11/2011
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: Washington Ignores...
The Post Bombards Readers With Misinformation About Jobs and the Economy
The Washington Post once again showed why it is known as "Fox on 15th Street," running an editorial with the subhead, "tackling the specter of structural unemployment," which essentially offers nothing to address the problem. The piece got off to a...
The GOP Wish List
Looks like Boehner isn't the only one with a few conditions: The two sides of the debate over whether the tea party is at heart a socially conservative movement or a fiscally conservative one smashed together Monday morning at a press conference in Washington, where a...
American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage
Out in America, unemployment is back up to 9 percent, but inside the Washington Beltway bubble the consensus, driven by conservatives, seems to be for austerity. An unholy alliance of pundits, politicians and even reporters— who differ only in degree—is insisting on...
Boehner Extortion Is My Game
"Give us trillions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid or we blow up the economy." Stripped of its politician's gloss, this is the message that House Speaker John Boehner delivered to Wall Street Monday in discussing the price Republicans demand for raising the debt...
With All The Concern Over Deficits Why So Little Reporting Of Peoples Budget That Fixes It
You can't open a newspaper or turn on a radio or TV without being told that the world is going to end because of the deficit. The deficit was caused by tax cuts for the rich, huge military spending increases, two wars and the costs of our health care system. So of...
