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Progressive Breakfast - 3/4/2010
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. President Calls For Final Health...
Bunning Puts a Face on Obstructionist, Mean-Spirited Conservatism
Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single-handedly delayed unemployment benefits for 400,000 desperate Americans and forced an unnecessary furlough of another 2,000, should be a figure regarded with wonderment. The awesome power he held in his hands!...
After A Full Year Of Debating Health Care, What's The Rush?
After President Obama finished his speech calling for an up-or-down vote on health care reform, a caller to C-Span spouted the usual right-wing complaint, "Why do we have to rush this?" I could not help but chuckle. How can anyone with a straight face still complain...
Friedman on Competitiveness: Identifies Problem, Offers Exactly Wrong Solution
Americans who travel out of the country will tell you about how the US is so visibly falling further and further behind the rest of the world. This hurts our ability to compete economically. The cause of the problem was tax cuts. The solution is certainly not more tax...
Never Say Never, Heritage Foundation: Here's The Truth About Reconciliation
Today's Heritage Foundation "Morning Bell," its daily conservative talking-points memo, contains says this blunt statement about the process that the Obama administration wants to use to pass a health care reform bill through Congress: "Never has reconciliation been...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/3/2010
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. Jobless Aid Extension Signed Into...
Say It Ain't So, Joe: Joe Biden Talks to Labor about Jobs
Vice President Joe Biden defended the administration in a speech to America's labor leaders, gathered at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meetings in Orlando, Florida this week. Mentioning individual union presidents by name -- including some not in the room --he...
Elites Rule, Not You: When Bipartisanship Becomes Undemocratic
At what point does "bipartisanship" begin to erode the democratic process? Here's my answer: When it's used to take decision-making power away from voters and place it in the hands of a governing elite - an elite which acts in secret so that its members cannot be held...
What Does Health Care Have To Do With The Olympics? Possibly Everything.
My adopted home town of Vancouver, BC is returning to normal this week. The party's over, the Olympic banners are coming down, and the world is catching its planes for home. But the Canadian flags are still flying everywhere against the late winter skies, thanks to a...
Whirlpool Tells Callers: Call Congress. They're Right!
In the middle of this terrible jobs crisis Whirlpool is closing a factory in the US and sending the jobs to Mexico. Their Mexican workers will be paid $70 a week so they won't be buying any refrigerators. As I wrote the other day, Our system is broken when "the...
