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Progressive Breakfast - 3/9/2010
Obama Warns Of Price Paid By Inaction On Health Care Positive Senate reaction to Obama's first health care rally. LAT: "One Senate Democratic aide said Obama's out-of-town stops are helpful in that they create political space for members to cast a vote in support of...
International Women's Day is a Day for Action
President Obama and the First Lady recognized International Women’s Day earlier this week with a moving and sometimes funny ceremony in the East Room. The President said that “the story of America’s women, like the story of America itself, has had its peaks and...
Sallie Mae's Jets: Bank Shills Use "Socialism" Scare to Shaft Students, Serve the Wealthy
Two noted shills for the banking industry - Republican Lamar Alexander and Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal - just trotted out the "socialism" boogeyman, so here we go again: another lie, another con, another ripoff. "School loan socialism" is the new Death Panel....
Superwealthy Deathly Afraid Estate Tax Would Reduce Deficit
One of the conservative goals former President George W. Bush was unable to get through the Senate was "making the tax cuts permanent." He only got them passed -- using Senate budget reconciliation rules -- by employing a budget gimmick to mask the 10-year cost....
Not As They Do: Conservatives and the Deficit, Pt. 3
Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation. After all, a deficit is...
We Already Have A Huge Carbon Tax - But Oil And Coal Companies Get The Money
We all pay a huge "hidden" tax when we burn oil and coal. Oil companies get the money. This is holding our economy back. Today when we burn oil or coal we put the toxic waste that results straight into the air. This causes damage to all of us, in many ways. First, of...
Senator Dodd Doubles Down on a Losing Bet
Submitted by Mary Bottari on March 8, 2010 - 09:06 Watching the devolution of the bank reform bill in the U.S. Senate has been painful. Banking Chairman Chris Dodd’s original proposal unveiled last year had numerous strengths, most significantly the removal of bank...
The Health Care Summit Worked
There were two ways last month's health care summit could have been a success. Republican leaders actually would support legislation that incorporated some of their ideas. Or, in the far more likely event that the GOP continued it's full-court obstructionist press,...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/8/2010
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. Obama Hits The Road For Health Care...
For a 'Living Wage' America, Cap the Top
The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent. Labels can often cloud reality. Take the labels of “private” and “public” sector....
