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Ridiculous Idea of The Day Melissa Bean for CFPB
This is a joke. Politico is floating the idea that notorious Wall Street crony Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., could be tapped to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if she loses her close election with Republican Joe Walsh. Even for Politico's rumor-mill, this...
Progressive Breakfast President Sketches 2011 Agenda
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. 60 Minutes Interview Highlights...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/8/2010
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. 60 Minutes Interview Highlights...
At Our Financial Summit No Need to Fret
Newly victorious lawmakers have wasted no time rushing to show they really do care — about keeping Wall Streeters lavishly rewarded. All in all, not a bad week for Wall Street. On last Tuesday, voters gave friends of high finance a lock grip over the U.S. House of...
Campaign Cash Tea Party Vows To Block Campaign Finance Reform
Welcome to the final edition of Campaign Cash, which tracked political spending during this year's midterm elections. Stay tuned for more reporting on money in politics from members of The Media Consortium. To see more stories on campaign funding, follow the Twitter...
Jobs Its BOLD PLAN Time
Today's jobs report showed that the economy added 151,000 jobs in October, the biggest rise since May. The 159,000 increase in private sector employment was the second-largest monthly rise of the "recovery." The official unemployment rate stayed at 9.6 percent. NY...
The GOPs Pyrrhic Victory Why It Wont Work Pt 1
First, let's just face it. For the next couple of years, at least, this is the end of any progress on jobs or the economy. Democrats will probably have to spend most of their time defending what they've gotten done. Whatever legitimate gripes progressives had with the...
The GOPs Pyrrhic Victory Why It Wont Work Pt 3
It Won't Work Not to pick on Kathleen Parker, but the "narrative" she suggested the Democrats take from midterm elections — "You can't sell people what they don't want" — is more likely to end up being the narrative the Republicans take...
Election Day Poll Voters Werent Backing Extreme Right Agenda
A poll released today by the Campaign for America's Future and Democracy Corps proves what we've been saying this week about the message voters were sending to the White House and Congress. Conservative leaders in both parties are flat wrong to claim they have a...
The Fightin Side of Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi has just announced that she's running for the position of House Minority Leader. As a San Franciscan, maybe she understood that turning her leadership role over to the Blue Dogs would have been like giving the Giants franchise to Oakland. She's been the...
