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Financial Reform: Reconciliation or Ritual?
The pheremonic scent of compromise is inducing euphoria in the nation's capitol once again. Not that there's anything wrong with compromise, if it results in policies that work. But we've just pulled ourselves back from the brink of financial meltdown, and tens of...
"Grand Obstructionist Oppressive Party" Makes The Case For Simple Majority Health Care Vote
During the lunch break of today's health care summit, C-Span 3 took two calls from Republican voters appalled at what they saw from their own party's congressional leaders. One praised President Obama for trying to tackle a serious problem, while lamenting the...
Whirlpool Workers File Legal Action
Yesterday: Whirlpool Threatens Workers Who Protest Plant Closing, I thought that was the end of it, but whoa, what's this? Whirlpool Threatens Workers: Protesting Plant Closure Risks 'Future Jobs' A major corporation planning to shut down a factory in Indiana has...
Kyl Does The Despicable: Holds Unemployment Benefits Hostage For Estate Tax Cut
McJoan at DailyKos says it best: "How despicable can these guys get?" This is how despicable: Starting Monday, 1.1 million people will lose their unemployment benefits because right-wing Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., thinks its more important to give tax breaks to...
NYTimes Owes Us An ACORN Smear Retraction
A month ago while covering the arrest of James O'Keefe after his attempt to tamper with the phones at Senator Mary Landrieu's office the New York Times repeated conservative misinformation that smeared ACORN, and is now refusing to retract their "reporting." James...
Open Thread: Watch And React To The President's Health Care Summit
Progressive Breakfast - 2/25/2010
Summit Convenes Today Six-hour health care summit begins at 10 AM ET. Successful bipartisan talks achieve consensus on shape of table. NYT: "...the White House at first proposed a U-shaped table with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the center...
Dodd & Corker's Financial Deal: "Bipartisan"? Sure. "Creative"? Maybe. Effective? No.
Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post waxed lyrical today about the compromise deal on financial regulations proposed Sens. Dodd and Corker, calling it a "creative bipartisan proposal." It's certainly "bipartisan," and it may even be "creative." What it isn't is...
Now Whirlpool Threatens Workers Who Protest Plant Closing
The other day I posted Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It saying, in summary, • Whirlpool closes a plant in Evansville • Taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. • All the local supplier, transportation and other third-party jobs...
Ready For Their Close-Up? GOP To Bring The Crazy Into Health Care Summit Spotlight
All week long, conservatives have been whining that President Obama's offer for a televised bipartisan health care summit was a trap. As Jon Stewart said, it's only a trap if you "got nothing." If you come prepared with compelling ideas, it's not a trap, it's an...
