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Cut Social Security To Pay For Tax Cuts For Rich?
We have a deficit because we cut taxes for the rich, increased military spending, started two decade-long wars and handed tons of money to Wall Street. The Washington elite crowd says therefore, to fix a deficit caused by cutting taxes for the rich and sending...
The Carnage Never Told
Washington is enmeshed in a partisan debate about gestures -- with Republicans now boasting that Americans will reward them for saying no to just about everything. No to forestalling the layoff of teachers. No to jobs in the cities. No to infrastructure projects. No....
Progressive Breakfast - 7/27/2010
WH Signals Support For Warren? Is the White House ready to back Warren? The Hill: "The White House on Monday gave the strongest signal yet that it may pick Elizabeth Warren ... White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday said Warren is 'very confirmable' ..."...
Elizabeth Warren and Her Discontents
Somebody really, really doesn't want Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, or "CFPB," which she first envisioned and proposed. Who? The big banks, for sure, as well as others who don't want their misbehavior brought to light. And Tim...
Manufacturing Strategy Idea Gets A Boost
Over the weekend I wrote about Speaker Pelosi talking at Netroots Nation about the upcoming "Making It In America" initiative that the Congress will be taking up after the summer recess. CNN's Money.com describes what's coming, Democrats kicked off the campaign last...
Hey CEOs. Want Certainty? Cap Carbon.
Conservative corporate executives -- many of whom are raking in profits while refusing to create jobs -- continue to complain that President Obama's agenda is blame for the weak economy because it has created too much
Progressive Breakfast: Next Up, The Bush Tax Cuts
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. Time To Choose Sides On Tax Cuts...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/26/2010
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. Time To Choose Sides On Tax Cuts...
Pelosi: Congress' Coming 'Making It In America' Initiative
At the Netroots Nation convention today in Las Vegas, Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked about an upcoming Congressional initiative to help restore American manufacturing. The initiative, called “Making It In America” will include a series of bills to be introduced after the...
"This Thing Is Not Over": There Always Has Been a Plan B For The Climate Bill
At Netroots Nation today, Van Jones sought to rally attendees after the Senate leadership put plans for a climate protection bill on the back burner: "This thing is not over." He's right, for one very simple reason. It is against the law under the Clean Air Act, the...
