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Progressive Breakfast - 3/24/2010
Popularity Swells For New Health Care Law Ezra Klein notes polls suggest that health care is more popular after passage than before: "Voters like success, the media covers winners more positively than losers, and people take their cues from outcomes. The first poll...
Find Out How MANY Jobs Have Been Lost To China Where YOU Live
Everyone knows that we have lost a lot of jobs to China since 2001. Now you can find out exactly how many, and where. The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Economic Policy Institute released a report today titled, “Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs” by EPI's...
Now That Health Care Is Law, A Vote AGAINST Reconciliation Is A Vote FOR The "Cornhusker Kickback"
President Barack Obama has just signed into law comprehensive health care reform, expanding coverage to 32 million Americans, cutting the deficit by over $1 trillion, and codifying the principle that every American has the right to affordable health insurance. The...
Student Loans: The Right's Hidden Agenda
President Obama's "no-brainer" suggestion that the government get back into the direct lending business has such obvious fiscal merit that you'd think it would melt the heart of the most obdurate conservative. But it's getting resistance anyway -- which is proof that...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/23/2010
President Signs Health Care Bill Today, Senate To Begin Reconciliation President to sign health care bill today, prepares victory lap strategy. LAT: "Obama is to sign the healthcare bill in a ceremony Tuesday. Two days later, he'll travel to Iowa City, where as a...
Marching for America
Last Sunday, as the health care bill was being debated, 200,000 Americans gathered on the National Mall to urge action on another national priority: fixing our broken immigration system. Speakers included civil rights leaders like Ben Jealous of the NAACP, faith...
Waterloo Sunset: Financial Obstructionism Could Be GOP Political Suicide
Sen. Jim DeMint famously predicted that health reform would be Obama's "Waterloo(1)," saying: "If we're able to stop Obama on this ... it will break him." It looks like Jim DeMint's crowd might be using the same obstructionist strategy toward financial reform. Here's...
Ten Million Jobs Needed - Ten Million Jobs That Need Doing
Dot: No net job gains since 2000. 8 million jobs lost in the recession. Never mind jobs for the 86,000 new people entering the labor force every month... Dot: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “congested highways, overflowing sewers, and...
Frum: Health Care a Republican Waterloo
David Frum is a conservative, former Bush speech-writer. He has the quaint view that Republicans in office should provide leadership, not zealotry. In this post, he describes the "crushing legislative defeat" conservatives have suffered on health care. Worth reading....
China's Coming Surprise Announcement And My Bridge On eBay
On April 15 the Obama administration is required to officially declare whether China is manipulating its currency. SInce China is manipulating its currency there is a great deal of pressure on the administration to say so. Surprise! On April 12 China is now said to be...
