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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...
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...
