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Progressive Breakfast - 11/3/2010
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. GOP Takes House Without Mandate...
Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (PA-13) on Social Security
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Bloggers Were Right It WAS Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs
The bloggers were right, it was about the jobs, jobs, jobs. For the first half of the year all the progressive bloggers were saying that the November election is going to turn out very, very badly for Democrats if they don't focus on jobs. We said please, please drop...
Wider Tea Party Appeal Only In Alice In Wonderland
It did not take long for a mainstream newspaper—The New York Times, no less—to rush into print an analysis with the headline that Tuesday's Republican election victories "Suggest Wider Appeal of Tea Party." Yes, a number of "tea party" candidates were helpful in the...
Conservatives Dont Misread Your Mandate
It is, once more, the economy, stupid. This election was overwhelmingly about one thing—the lousy economy. Democrats paid the price as voters expressed their discontent. Conservatives in both parties are simply wrong to claim that the vote represents an ideological...
The Choice A Congress That Works With The President Or Doesnt Let The President Work
LISTEN Bill Scher discussed the 2010 midterm election on The Rick Smith Show October 29. Here is the choice voters face today. Do you want a Congress that works with the President, or a Congress that doesn't let the President work? Do you want continued wonky debates...
Campaign Cash Biggest Loser Corporate Edition—Spending 2 Million on a Losing Race in Iowa
Corporate America is on the attack in every state. As Joshua Holland explains for AlterNet, outside groups have spent somewhere between $750,000 and more than $2 million in an attempt to unseat Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) in a state where ad buys come cheap. But Braley...
Campaign Cash The Tea Party Jets to Grassroots Rallies Wall Street-Style
Two Tea Party leaders, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, have been jet-setting all over the country ginning up support for conservative politicians. Literally. They’ve been flying around in a private jet like Wall Street CEOs, except they’re heading to “grassroots”...
Campaign Cash Harry Reid Under Siege by Swift Boat Billionaire Bob Perry
Remember that horrible 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that helped derail John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid? Well, Bob Perry, the billionaire tycoon who financed that smear campaign is back, and he's underwriting a barrage of dirty ads that target politicians...
Campaign Cash Corporations Get More Power Political Parties Get Less
War chests from right-wing billionaires and corporate titans are funding tremendous portions of political activity, from the so-called grassroots activism of the Tea Party to the streamlined lobbying assaults of the nation's largest corporations. In the aftermath of...
