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Tea Party Winning Poll Has Hints For A Momentum Shift
Dig into the numbers of the latest Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll on the recession and race and it's easy to see how the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have blown it on winning the allegiance of the white working...
Top 5 Why Wisconsin Matters To You
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Thousands are rallying in Wisconsin and across the nation to oppose conservative governors who are attacking the collective bargaining rights of...
Huge Egypt-Style Turnout For Wisconsin Public Employees
Big things are happening in Wisconsin in response to Governor Walker's assault on the rights of working people. The Governor is trying to end 50 years of collective bargaining for Wisconsin workers, and has threatened to call out the National Guard to enforce it. The...
Budget Baloney Why Social Security Isnt a Problem for 26 Years and the Best Way to Fix It Permanently
[Originally posted at RobertReich.org.] New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican presidential hopeful, says in order to "save" Social Security the retirement age should be raised. The media are congratulating him for his putative "courage." Deficit hawks are...
Live Reporting from the Wisconsin Rally
Tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents are flooding the State Capitol in Madison in protest of Governor Walker's proposed budget "repair" bill that would end 50 years of collective bargaining for Wisconsin workers. CMD reporters will be out providing live...
Wisconsin Plunder on the Right
Governor Scott Walker, the self-described “Tea Party Governor” of Wisconsin, likes to present himself as a faux populist, standing against powerful public employee unions for the little guy. In fact, he’s part of a conservative assault on workers, designed to...
Democrats Stop Worrying About Political Fallout And Do The Right Thing
... and just join the GOP: Bradley Tusk, a former Illinois deputy governor and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s 2009 campaign manager, said that if Walker succeeds in the fight, “this will be portrayed as a major change toward fiscal sanity and protecting taxpayers.”...
Tea Party Win
E.J. Dionne is half right: Take five steps back and consider the nature of the political conversation in our nation's capital. You would never know that it's taking place at a moment when unemployment is still at 9 percent, when wages for so many people are stagnating...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/22/2011
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: Bust The Unions?...
Dear Washington DC The Public Is Smarter About Money (and Deficits) Than You Are
Some condescending politicians and pundits never miss an opportunity to talk down to the American people, especially when it comes to budgets. The members of Washington's political "center" encounter one another at social events, often in pleasant halls where the...
