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Progressive Breakfast - 9/23/2010
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. New Health Reform Benefits Kick In...
Progressive Breakfast Hello Health Care Reform
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. New Health Reform Benefits Kick In...
UPDATE Highest Ranking Senator On Deficit Commission Says Dont Cut Until Unemployment Hits 6
Yesterday I noted that the highest ranking Senator on the White House deficit commission, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, heeded the recent warning from 300 economists to put jobs before deficit reduction when he told Bloomberg that we shouldn't embark on deficit...
Young Guns Same Old Ammo
In keeping with the Western-themed title of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, allow me to set the scene: It's well past high noon, and as the dust settles the economy lies bleeding. Looks like it's all over but the dyin' and the buryin'. But wait!...
The Method To Their Madness
We've been going back and forth the last few days about whether the president and the Democrats are wise to use the "hector the base" strategy to close the enthusiasm gap. I wrote this: More importantly, it's a complete misreading of what ails the base. It's not about...
Constitutional Insanity
Digby confirms a suspicion I've held since the Clinton years: part of the method to the right's madness is to exhaust their opponents with their insanity. It's related to what I previously dubbed "The Tyranny of the Tantrum." Those of you who went through the 90s will...
President To Talk Currency With Chinese Premier Wen Tomorrow
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will be in New York this week to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Reuters reports that Press Secretary Gibbs said in the White House briefing today that the President will meet with him tomorrow and will bring up the problem of...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/22/2010
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. Speculation Rampant On Replacing...
After Summers Which Path Will the President Take
Now that Larry Summers is leaving, the President has a decision to make. His choice of a replacement will send a signal about the next two years of economic policy. That signal can restore consumer confidence and reinvigorate the electorate, or it can lead to even...
In the United States Today Even Happiness Has a Price
You want to be happy? You don't need to be rich, says some fascinating new academic research. But you do need not to be poor. So how much income must you actually have to achieve a reasonable facsimile of nirvana? Here's what the researchers are saying. How much money...
