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Progressive Breakfast - 6/30/2010
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. Teacher Funding, Jobless Aid Remain...
Senate Has Chance For Partial Redemption On Jobs
It appears that the Senate, which shamed itself last week by refusing to take action on a jobs and tax fairness bill, will have an opportunity to redeem itself somewhat with a vote on extended unemployment benefits. The House attempted to pass by voice vote this...
Afghanistan or Social Security? Boehner Says We Have to Choose
Peace activists and progressives are the only people that I've heard connect war spending in Afghanistan and Pakistan with our financial security at home - until now, that is. Yesterday House Minority Leader made the connection explicit, telling reporters and editors...
The Real Deficit Is Jobs!
The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. There aren't enough jobs, and we're being told this is our fault because we wanted pensions and good wages and vacations and...
Boehner: Cut Social Security to Pay for War
Republican House leader John Boehner laid out the Republcan world view in an interview with a friendly reporter at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Boehner defended the big banks from reform, arguing that the finanical reform bill was like "killing an ant with a nuclear...
Progressive Breakfast: WH Meetings On Climate, Immigration Today
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. Can Obama Find Common Ground On...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/29/2010
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. Can Obama Find Common Ground On...
In Praise of Bureaucrats
Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room calls out the "Climate Peacocks" in Congress who are ostentatiously shaking their tailfeathers in mock outrage over the very idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might actually act as agents of environmental protection: Earlier...
What I Saw at "AmericaSpeaks": A Mind Control Experiment Gone Horribly Right
After much hype and buildup, the AmericaSpeaks "national town meeting" on cutting the deficit was held on Saturday. I watched the proceedings via webcast for much of the morning, knowing that Digby was liveblogging it and David Dayen was on the scene here in Southern...
Will Gov. Manchin Heed Sen. Byrd's Climate Call?
10 years ago, Sen. Robert Byrd blocked a move to end the use of coal at the Capitol Hill Power Plant. Just this month, he voted in support of the EPA"s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The evolution in his environmental views is another example of Sen. Byrd's...
