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Progressive Breakfast - 11/10/2010
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. The Social Security Onslaught...
Response To Latest Social Security Attack Owe No You Dont
The Chicken Little campaign orchestrated by billionaire Peter G. Peterson to rally public support behind cutting Social Security was kicked up a notch on Tuesday with the launch of the $20 million "Owe No" campaign. With references to "a growing crisis" that will...
Sit Stay A New York Times Chew Toy for Blue Dogs
The conservative wing of the Democratic Party just drove it over a cliff, but you'd never know if from reading Matt Bai's latest New York Times piece. It's the latest in a series of Bai paeans to that odd mix of ideologies and opportunism that Washington types persist...
A New USA Cheer for the 21st Century Were Number 12
How much does inequality cost us? The United States holds far more wealth than any other nation in the world. Yet average people in 11 other countries, says landmark new UN research, are enjoying a higher standard of living than Americans. Twenty years ago, in 1990,...
Conservatives Kill Jobs & Come Back For More
If, in the future, Republicans ever again ask "Where are the jobs?" it will be because they've forgotten where they buried the ones they killed. For now, though, it's clear they remember all too well. Like a serial killer returning to a favorite dump site to reminisce...
The Voters Message Manufacturing a Solution
No doubt voters sent a message last Tuesday. Deciphering it correctly is crucial. Republican cryptographers interpreted the election results that gave the GOP control of one house of Congress as a directive to demolish everything produced over the past two years –...
Tea Party Betrayed Already
I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them. CAF has set up a page for the Tea Party Getting Played series. So, how's that new Tea Party Congress working out for Tea Party supporters who expected that...
Progressive Breakfast Korea Deal Imminent
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. Can The Korea Deal Be Fixed? WH...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/9/2010
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. Can The Korea Deal Be Fixed? WH...
Does Obama Really Want to Make Social Security Cuts Even the Tea Party Wouldnt Touch
The President could be on the brink of making a serious mistake, one with grave implications for his political future and even graver implications for aging Americans. If he responds to this election by adopting the Deficit Commission's recommendation to cut Social...
