Archive
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...
The Administration, The Bloggers, The Homeowners (and yes, me)
The bloggers who attended briefings from a "senior Treasury Department official" last week have interpreted the concept of "deep background" in several different ways. I attended one of the briefings and initially didn't plan to write about it at all. Others did write...
McConnell Repeats Debunked Lies To Promote More Tax Cuts For Multi-Millionaires
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is repeating lies about the Bush tax cuts for multi-millionaires. Good journalists should stop him. After McConnell defensively dodged questions from Meet The Press host David Gregory on how he could support both deficit...
