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Breaking the Silence FCIC Report Brings The Focus Back To Wall Street
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report couldn't come at a better time. At a moment when it seems that Washington would rather forget what happened two years ago, it documents the opportunism, bad judgment, and criminality that crashed the world's economy...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/28/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Wall St....
Social Security Caucus Has True Grit—Who Else Will Join
The Social Security Caucus, who could also be known as the “True Grit” Caucus began meeting today in the U.S. Senate as a new sense of urgency grew on the same day as the Tea Party Caucus met. The five Tea Party Senators expressed a willingness to privatize the...
Cut Social Security To Save It From Cuts
See Update at end. Should we cut Social Security to "save" it from cuts? Just two days after the President pledged during the State of the Union address to improve Social Security "without putting at risk current retirees" and "without slashing benefits for future...
The Congressional Progressive Caucus A Time to Stand
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus convene today in their first-ever strategy retreat. The meeting will be opened by newly selected co-chairs Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona and Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. With 83 members, the CPC is the largest caucus...
US Chamber Attacks FCIC as Job-killing Wikileakers
In a response to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releasing its final report on the financial crisis today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pitched a hissy fit calling the report an "abuse of the process" that would create "job-killing lawsuits." (So much for the...
Social Security Fight Not Over
Last night, the President pledged to improve Social Security "without putting at risk current retirees" and "without slashing benefits for future generations." With the State of the Union speech out of the way Progressives can claim some credit and breathe a little...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/27/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: Crisis Report Puts Focus Back On Wall St. OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Today's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report couldn't come at a better time ... when the nation's capital is convinced that CEOs need appeasing rather than policing, the...
Paul Ryan Selling Economic Pain With a Smile
To hear some progressive bloggers tell it, Paul Ryan's response to President Obama's State of the Union address was an utter failure, and the GOP blundered in picking him to carry its message. But the true measure of a speech's success is how well the speaker reaches...
Conrad on SOTU Hey Kent What about Jobs
The retiring Kent Conrad, Democratic Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, released his own statement on the State of the Union (see below in full). He praises the president for calling for civility and bipartisan action on deficits. Missing in action is any mention...
