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Financial Reform: The Road Behind, The Way Forward
The House and Senate have reached a deal and we have a financial reform deal. That means we will see significant improvements over the status quo as it existed yesterday. It also means we still haven't addressed the gravest risks to the economy. Most of all it means...
Wall Street Reform: A Good First Step
Members of Congress finished ironing out their differences on Wall Street reform last night, and the resulting bill deserves unequivocal support from progressives and conservatives alike. But while the final package is a necessary first step to overhauling the...
It's Not About The Deficit (Part II). Conservatives Just Hate The Unemployed.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed the conservative filibuster of the latest jobs and jobless aid bill was because they oppose any increase of the national debt: "The principle Democrats are defending is that they will not pass a bill unless it adds to the...
What's China Doing?
As today's Progressive Breakfast points out, NYT news reports suggests move is for real, part of fundamental change in Chinese economy: "For years, Chinese leaders looked to the millions of poor workers from the country’s interior as the engine of a roaring export...
Progressive Breakfast: Bank Deal Done, Jobs Bill Killed, Carbon Cap Alive
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. House-Senate Conference Approves...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/25/2010
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. House-Senate Conference Approves...
Deficit Deception Risks Depression
The deficit problem can be summed up very simply: the public thinks Obama's policies created a huge deficit. Never mind that it was Bush's deficit -- the public doesn't know that. This misunderstanding is leading Washington to take steps that will throw the economy...
Alaska, Nigeria & The Party of BP
American Conservatives from Joe Barton to Rand Paul and Sarah Palin have expressed outrage that the President Obama would use the the power of his office to hold BP accountable to the residents of the Gulf Coast. They are outraged because they believe this is...
Senate Obstructionists 'Want This Economy To Fail'
"It is very clear that the Republicans in the Senate want this economy to fail," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., this afternoon in reaction to the latest efforts in the Senate to block a jobs bill from coming to the floor for a vote. Her comment during a news...
It's Not About The Deficit. Conservatives Just Hate Teachers.
Congressional conservatives have mainly blocked additional stimulus spending on the (economically illiterate) grounds that it would add the deficit. But apparently when it comes to preventing teacher layoffs, conservative opposition is not about the deficit at all....
