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The Health Care Ad War In Wisconsin Johnson Uses Polls Feingold Uses People
Yesterday I highlighted several campaign ads directly and indirectly defending a vote for the health care reform law. These ads are airing on the grounds that you can't win an argument without making one. One of those ads -- Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold's -- has drawn...
Progressive Breakfast Who Needs A Minimum Wage Anyway
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. Conservative Candidates Attack...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/5/2010
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. Conservative Candidates Attack...
Yes You Can Run On Health Care
2010 is similar to 1994 in that Americans are frustrated with the pace of economic recovery, and out-of-power conservatives appear to be more energized than progressives conflicted about compromises. But there are two big differences between the 2010 midterm elections...
Is There A Currency War
Is there a currency war going on? Yes, it has been going on for some time. It's up to China to end it. China has taken a number of steps over recent years to boost and “protect” its economy, building industries and providing badly-needed jobs. Good for them. But they...
The Stimulus WorkedAs Far As It Went
One of my biggest gripes about the administration is the fact that they have a terrible, hubristic habit of taking premature victory laps. They aren't alone --- the Democratic congress and the Republicans do the same thing. I suppose they worry about not being allowed...
NYTimes Friedman Need 3rd Party To Send Even More Money To Top
Thomas Friedman, in a Sunday's NYTimes op-ed, Third Party Rising, looks at our country's political gridlock, gets is partially correct, then reaches the wrong conclusions. Friedman notes that DC is broken, can't get a crucially-needed energy bill and other important...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/4/2010
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. Corporations Try To Buy The...
Payday Lenders How Wall Streets Undercover Brothers Exploit Minorities
All the major banking institutions say the right things about race and equality. They all have diversity programs. A few financial industry leaders, like Robert Rubin and Jamie Dimon, even support socially liberal causes. Yet the banking industry covertly uses payday...
Conservatives Just Killed 240000 Jobs
Conservatives in Congress just fired 240,000 American workers. Conservatives in Congress just killed 240,000 jobs. Conservatives in Congress just essentially added 240,000 more Americans to the ranks of the unemployed. However you frame it, people who want to work and...
