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Jon Stewart Is Wrong
Jon Stewart presumably came to DC to rally the sane against Glenn Beck's minions and 9/11 Truthers. But instead of amplifying that message in The Daily Show interview with President Obama yesterday, Stewart opted to focus on the most weak and superficial criticisms of...
Weve Foreclosed On Ourselves
Faced with a foreclosure fiasco of astounding proportions — as chronicled by my fellow bloggers, Zach Carter and Richard Eskow — in which banks practically kick down doors to foreclose on homes even when they can't prove ownership of the...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/18/2010
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: We've Foreclosed...
Progressive Breakfast Foreclosing On Ourselves
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: We've Foreclosed...
The Healthcare is Too Damn High (Video)
The Healthcare is Too Damn High from CEPR Oh My goodness. The deficits are out of control. We have to do something! What is wrong with the deficits? Well, we have to cut them. Why? Because if we don’t do something, something really bad will happen Like what? The...
Free Trade By Any Other Name
"Free trade" by any other name ... is still just a scam to pit workers against each other and evade the protections of democracy. We, the People fought to build this democracy with its laws and institutions and protections. This fight brought us a middle class with...
The DCRest-Of-Us Divide And Its Consequences
A CBS poll shows that only 6% of the public is concerned about budget deficits or taxes. The rest of us are more concerned about jobs and the economy, with very good reason. The Washington elite are insulated from the pain the rest of us and are focused on the deficit...
100000 Tell Senate Conservatives Stop Blocking Jobless Benefits
A petition signed by more than 100,000 supporters of extending emergency unemployment benefits was sent to members of Congress earlier today, but this example of overwhelming public support has had no effect on Senate conservatives, who so far haven’t shown...
GOP Abandons Own Plan To Let Tax Cuts Expire Despite Public Opinion
What was that again about a "center-right" nation? A new CNN poll finds only one-third of Americans backs the congressional Republican position for extending the Bush tax breaks to those earning more than $250,000 a year. Nearly half of American share President...
The Schakowsky Deficit Reduction Plan A Proposal that Actually Strengthens Social Security
The first thing you need to know about Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s plan to strengthen Social Security is what it does not do. It does not claim to cut benefits in order to “prevent them from being cut” in the future. It does not “fix” Social Security with 70% benefit cuts...
