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What the President Didn't Seem to Learn From the Shirley Sherrod Incident
The "teachable moment" cliché may be overused, as Jason Linkins observed the other day, but what the White House really needed this week was a learnable moment. The Administration and other leading Democrats had an opportunity this week to understand the nature of the...
Progressive Breakfast: Global Warming Bill Back-Burnered
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. No Carbon Cap Bill This Summer Sen....
Progressive Breakfast - 7/23/2010
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. No Carbon Cap Bill This Summer Sen....
Progressive Breakfast: Uh, We Just Enacted Wall Street 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. With Wall St. Reform Now Law, Eyes...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/22/2010
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. With Wall St. Reform Now Law, Eyes...
Scammed: What Shirley Sherrod and Social Security Have in Common
This week's big story is that a faker scammed the media, trashing an innocent USDA employee's career in order to push a false right-wing narrative. But another scam's underway too, and it's targeting Social Security and other entitlement programs. As Republicans (and...
Dear Mr. President: Time To Man Up
"It hurts me that they didn't even try to attempt to see what is happening here, they didn't care." Shirley Sherrod – on her forced resignation from the USDA within hours airing of a heavily edited video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event by right wing...
The Bank Lobby Smear Against Elizabeth Warren
Ezra Klein needs to stop repeating bank lobby smears against Elizabeth Warren. He's sympathetic to the charge that Warren is "too dismissive of the benefits of financial innovation," because, well, I don't know why. It's a baseless allegation being made by Warren's...
Kick the Old and the Disabled to Show We're Serious About Deficits?
In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. Perpetually tanned Republican House Minority leader John Boehner, called for hiking the retirement age to 70. The Democratic House Majority...
Stop Coddling The McCarthyite Smear Machine
The right-wing smear machine that cost an exemplary Agriculture Department official her job should be denounced for what it is: a high-tech, low-rent McCarthyism that launches search-and-destroy missions with no purpose but poisonous partisanship. That the Obama...
