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Progressive Breakfast: Natural Born Job-Killers
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. Deficit Hysterics Block Senate Jobs...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/18/2010
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. Deficit Hysterics Block Senate Jobs...
Will Wall Street Reform Be Gutted By A Technicality?
The tough derivatives overhaul proposed by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., has emerged as the key fight in Wall Street reform. That status is well-deserved. Despite Lincoln's record as a stooge for corporate executives, she is pushing what is by far the most significant...
We Won't Be Sister Souljah'd, Lanny Davis
Corporate lobbyist Lanny Davis, former legal counsel for President Clinton, is launching his own firm next week, and he is previewing his tactics with a slimy and erroneous diatribe against progressives in general and against the Campaign for America's Future in...
Welcome to The State of Hate: Armed Nazis To Patrol AZ Border
The racist outrages are coming so thick and fast out of Arizona these days that was probably only a matter of time before some Nazi group took advantage of the situation to put itself on the media map. And -- whaddaya know! -- here they come, right on schedule....
The Barton Apology: Proving Conservatives Want America To Be Dependent On Big Oil
Before Rep. Joe Barton literally apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the "tragedy" of the "$20 billion shakedown" -- otherwise known to the sane as an escrow fund to pay claims to victims of the Gulf gusher -- he stressed he was not speaking for the Republican...
Progressive Breakfast: Wide Open Senate Energy Debate
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. Senate Dems Convene To Chart Energy...
China Says G20 Should Not Discuss Currency Imbalance
Treasury Secretary Geithner delayed a required April 15 declaration that China is manipulating its currency, saying it will instead be taken up by the G20. China has now warned other G20 countries that the G20 meeting in Toronto next week is not the appropriate place...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/17/2010
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. Senate Dems Convene To Chart Energy...
Real Reform Gains Traction: Lincoln Stands Firm on Derivatives Overhaul
As the House and Senate publicly iron out their differences on Wall Street reform during conference committee, the most important aspect of the overhaul is gaining strength behind the scenes. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., is standing firm on her tough derivatives...
