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Beyond Hysteria Common Sense about Deficits
With the submission today of the President’s proposed budget for next year (FY 2012), Washington descends further into the furious debate about less. How much less will government do? The president pledges to freeze domestic spending for five years, reducing it to a...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/14/2011
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: Citizens Guide To...
The Republican Budget Is Madness
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure the American people didn't vote last November for fewer jobs, teachers and cops and more sickness, pollution and hunger. In fact, I'm sure the crazy one in this story is the House Republican caucus, which late Friday night proposed,...
Jobs No Narrow Rape Definition Yes
The new Congress was elected by promising things to voters, but now in office they are doing different things. It is as if they said what they needed to say to get votes, but had a plan to do something else all along. The big question on everyone's mind: where is the...
The Depressing Phony War in Washington
There were three of us on Warren Olney’s "To the Point" public radio program, one of the more enlightened shows on NPR. But the program, addressing the coming debate on spending cuts, quickly descended into Beltway babble. Stephen Moore, the gleeful right-wing...
Finding the Good in the Good Old Days
It’s federal budget time, and they’re talking 1950s on Capitol Hill. Well, sometimes we can move forward by turning the political clock back. But we have to know exactly where to stop. Last week, in a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama pledged...
House GOP Heralds The Salmonella Protection Act Of 2011
Today, the House is expected to approve a Republican resolution that would effectively cut all federal government "non-security" spending by nearly 20%. Their political objective is contrast Republican budget slashing to the President's support of a "spending binge" –...
Axelrod Were Gonna Have A Good Ol Fashioned Budget Battle
No, that headline is not a quote from White House political adviser David Axelrod during yesterday's blogger roundtable which I was fortunate to attend. But you tell me how else to interpret this: DAVID AXELROD: Well, we have an obligation to put a budget forward, and...
Governor Mayor Speak Out Against Job-Killing Budget Cuts
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter are having some success in creating jobs for their residents in a tough economic climate. And Republicans in Congress are working to take away the tools they are using to put people to work. Both...
Conservative Cuts Have Consequences
Whatever you may think of him, you've got to give Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) credit. He said he would present his own budget, and now he's done it. He's even taken to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to defend it, and challenge Republicans and Democrats to: find other...
