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Progressive Breakfast - 5/6/2010
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. Populist Charge On Senate Floor...
Tuesday's Primaries: Tea Party 0, Democracy 5
Suppose they gave a tea party and nobody came? That's pretty much what happened on Tuesday, as the first wave of Tea Party primary candidates all went down to abject humiliation at the hands of the voters. Skippy the bush kangaroo surveys the catastrophe (note:...
The Senate Should Debate "Too Big to Fail" On Live Television
Now that the ideological defense of Wall Street behavior has collapsed, brought down by the wreckage of deregulation, bankers and lobbyists are pursuing a new strategy: fighting the democratic process itself. They're suggesting that this issue is a little too...
America's Carbon Addiction: This Is An Intervention
George W. Bush -- who knew a thing or two about addiction -- was right about one thing: America is addicted to fossil fuels. Looking at the recent headlines, it's becoming clear that history, Gaia, and our neighbors have all had enough. Look around the room. Look at...
Liveblogging the Bear Stearns Hearing
9:00 Here we go. Bill Thomas is offering a very silly analogy between the automobile and the financial system. Both were simple 40 years ago, then both got complicated, and now when you need a very sophisticated specialist to fix problems with either cars or finance....
The Blue Green Alliance: The Clean Energy Future Meets the Deficit Infatuated Present.
The agenda of the Blue Green Alliance is brilliant and visionary. Build a “new, clean energy economy in America, and put [people] to work creating the American jobs of the future.” The blue green coalition includes environmentalists and organized labor, and its...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/5/2010
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. Fed Audit Endangered? First it was...
Livestreaming the Closed Door Debt Commission Meeting
Probably not going to be the most riveting livestream ever. Video streaming by Ustream
JPMorgan Still Hates The Economy
J.P. Morgan Chase, America's largest warehouse of arrogant financial elites, has issued yet another deceptive lobbyist smear in the guise of an "analyst report." Yesterday, the megabank's Chief Economist James Glassman launched a broadside against Sen. Carl Levin...
Long-Term Unemployed Want—And Need—Government Action
There's a new study today that shows once again how insanely wrong conservatives are when they say that extending unemployment benefits in today's economy only discourages people from finding work. \ Just ask the people who participated in the study of the long-term...
