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Chinas Goverment Helps Manufacturers Economy Booms Ours Not So Much
As an election strategy conservatives blocked or watered down everything they could that might help the economy, hoping voters would blame the President's party for job losses. Tomorrow we will learn if this strategy succeeded. But Wednesday can we start doing things...
Win or Lose Perriello Reveals Progressive Power
Tom Perriello always knew it would be hard to hold his seat in Congress. The progressive Democrat from Albemarle County, Va. represents a district designed to nullify liberal votes with a wide swath of conservative countryside. He was elected in 2008, riding President...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/1/2010
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. Campaigns Head Into Final Stretch...
Our Historic Stand Against the Bank Cabals Coalition of Darkness
Perspective's hard to come by in the heat of the moment, but it's already clear that this week's election is profoundly important. The forces of small-"d" democracy are up against a cabal of ultra-powerful financiers who, in an unending quest for greater wealth and...
Alan Greenspan and Things Forgotten
Ah, the things we forget. This was then: Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan greenlighted the Bush tax cuts, saying that Clinton was paying down the country's debt too fast as a result of modest taxes on the wealthy. So the Bush tax cuts for the rich passed, which...
Tea Party Members VS Tea Party Wall Street Funders
The Tea Party hates the Federal Reserve. You hear it over and over: Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve. Tea Party could challenge Federal Reserve. From Tea Party Advocates, Anger at the Federal Reserve. Audit the Federal Reserve - Toledo TEA Party. Tea...
The Myth of the Self-Made American Why Progressives Get No Respect
One of the biggest problems facing the Democrats going into this election is that they're getting absolutely zero respect for everything they've done for the average American over the past two years. Tax cuts, health care reform, financial reform, expanded veterans'...
This Is Not Your Country
This is not your country. Nor is it mine. That we were born here, along with our forebears hardly matters. This has been the message of the Tea Party since its incorporation — and of conservatism itself for more than a generation — to anyone who doesn't'...
African Americans Can—And Must—Rewrite The Nov 2 Story
African-American voters are once again in a pivotal position to decide on November 2 who controls the House of Representatives, and by extension whether the economic damage done to African American families in the past decade will be repaired in the foreseeable...
Who Do You Want To Fight With Next Year Right-Leaning Dems or Tea Party Republicans
No matter what happens on Tuesday, progressives will not have unfettered control of Washington, just as we have not the last two years, the last decade, the decade before that, or the decade before that. We will have to fight for more change. The question is: who will...
