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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: The Speech -...
Obamas Deficits Progressive Priorities Conservative Context
Poetry graces the speeches of Barack Obama. Few political leaders have his skill of telling the progressive story of America in a way that draws us together. His budget speech delivered at George Washington was exemplary, portraying an America of both rugged...
New York Times Peterson Story Spells Our Name Right Gets An Opinion Wrong Corrects Whats Already Correct
This weekend the New York Times ran what seemed to be a somewhat overly flattering piece about right-wing anti-entitlement hawk Pete Peterson, and the piece included this paragraph: Progressives like Mr. Baker or Richard Eskow of the Campaign for America’s Future...
Wherein Im Attacked by Rush Limbaugh -- plus Dittoheads Gone Wild [audio]
Apparently the august and statesmanlike Mr. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (his real name) was a little displeased by our piece in the Huffington Post this weekend, "Why Progressives Keep Losing and the Right Keeps Winning." He read it out loud on his show this...
The Presidents Deficit Speech Its Time to Keep Up the Pressure
The President speech on the Federal deficit marked a brilliant return to what might be called his "holographic" style. Like a hologram, the President's speech was beautiful and evocative and shimmered with light. But like a hologram, what you see depends on where you...
Budget Deal A Raw Deal For Working Families
Our sister site, TheMiddleClass.org, is taking a dim view of the budget deal struck Friday between the White House and Congress for fiscal year 2011. It concedes that it is not as disastrous for middle-class and lower-income people as H.R. 1, the budget the House...
The Presidents Speech Rated Against the Citizens Guide
The President got big things right in his budget speech. He defended Medicare and Medicaid against the Republican effort to end them, and pushed accurately for reforming our health care system, not simply shifting costs to seniors and the disabled. He defended Social...
The Citizens Guide to the Budget Debate
On Wednesday, the President will lay out his principles for deficit reduction, responding to the Republican FY 2012 budget put forth by House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan. The Ryan plan is brazen and preposterous. It violates every common sense principle about dealing...
This Time President Obama Tells The Story
RELATED POST Robert Borosage rates President Obama's speech against his "citizen's guide" to common-sense standards for the budget debate. Earlier this week at The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry wondered if President Obama lost his ability to "tell the story"—in other...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/13/2011
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: Not Needed: An...
