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The Stimulus Is Working. Debate Over. More Please.
The Recovery Act, often known as the stimulus, was the first major act of active government in at least decade. After the unmitigated failure of conservatism, the stimulus has likely be viewed by many voters as a test of whether active government can work and should...
Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs
Glenn Beck made it official on Fox News last week: He’s seeking the office of 21st Century Marie Antoinette. The queen of France, beheaded during the revolution, attained infamy for insensitivity toward hungry peasants. Glenn Beck, the Fox talk show host, achieved...
Progressive Breakfast: Debt Commish Chair Insults Just About Everybody
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. Calls For Alan Simpson's...
Boehner Trade Plan: Go Back To Disaster
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gave a speech yesterday describing his party's positions on jobs & the economy going into the fall election. Summary: Our economic policies destroyed the country’s economy and millions of lives, but it made a few of my buddies...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/25/2010
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. Calls For Alan Simpson's...
"310 Million Tits" - If Simpson Doesn't Resign, The President Must Fire Him
Alan Simpson is the co-chair of President Obama's Deficit Commission, which is charged with creating a bipartisan consensus for balancing the budget. Lately Simpson's foulmouthed tirades have drawn at least as much attention as the Commission's actual work. His latest...
Congress: Act Now To Preempt The Catfood Commission
The President has appointed a commission to study ways to reduce the deficit, but the only thing anyone is hearing from this commission (they meet in secret) is that they are going after Social Security instead. For this reason it has become known as the "Catfood...
Boehner's Half-Baked Economic Plan
Rep. John Boehner, the perpetually tanned House Minority leader, unveiled his plan to get the economy going today in a speech before the Cleveland City Club. Hold on to your job -- if he becomes Speaker, things will get worse. Understandably, Boehner said not a word...
Boehner's Economic Speech Needs More Than A Fact-Check, It Needs A Fact-Stimulus
House Minority Leader John Boehner pulled a sly move today, calling for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top presidential economic adviser Larry Summers. It gave the media an easy headline to write, and obscured the rest of the speech. That sad,...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/24/2010
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. Boehner Backs Bush Tax Cuts In...
