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Cap-and-Trade and Cap-and-Dividend Can Be Friends!
One thing I learned watching the climate debate last year is: don't pick a fight with Joe Romm. For example, the Freakonomics boys had their reputation permanently sullied by the brilliant policy analysis and Climate Progress blogger after daring to play loose with...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/4/2010
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. How Small Is The Senate Jobs Bill?...
Just This One Conservative Failure Cost 1.4 Million Jobs
Just one of the many conservative failures cost 1.4 million jobs, all by itself. And never mind how much borrowing it caused. In Macroeconomic effects of Chinese mercantilism, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman took a look at how many jobs have been lost...
Not As They Do: Conservatives and the Deficit, Pt. 1
Listening to conservatives squawk about deficits is a bit like taking parenting and/or relationship advice from Medea, the Gosselins or "Octomom." At best, they serve as an example of what not to do. As it is with children, so it is with conservatives and deficits....
Taking Elections Back From the Corporations and the Constitution Back from the Gang of Five
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi) and chair of the House Judiciary Committee today introduced an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United that gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds...
For A Real Jobs Bill, Senate Needs To Hear From You NOW
The Senate leadership appears to be on the verge of proposing a jobs package significantly smaller than the $154B bill that has cleared the House, even though everybody agrees even the House bill is not big enough to reverse the 7 million jobs already lost in the...
Cruz, Paul and Rubio Try To Discuss Inequality. Wackiness Ensues.
A discussion with Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio shows in stark relief how Republicans are trying, and failing, to be seen as the party of the middle class.
Progressive Breakfast - 2/3/2010
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. Senate Jobs Package Coming Tomorrow...
Obama's Radical Agenda
Conservatives are constantly talking about Obama's "radical, far-left agenda." "At last!", I said. Hearing their whines and complaints I became hopeful that our government would finally serve We, the People instead of the big corporations and the wealthy. But then,...
Chris Dodd vs. Big Banks' Gambling Addicts
Will Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., be seduced by the siren song of bipartisanship and allow the nation's largest banks to gamble with what amounts to a taxpayer-paid insurance policy? There was a somewhat encouraging word from Dodd at...
