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Bernanke Whip Count Update: Bernanke Nears 50, 30 Senators Remain Undeclared
While we at Campaign for America's Future and Open Left having been conducting our own "Bernanke Whip Count," so have the journalists at
Bernanke Whip Count Update: 38 Senators Still Up In The Air
It's been 24 hours since Campaign for America's Future and Open Left launched the "Bernanke Whip Count," enlisting the grassroots to find out where Senators really stand, and help target our efforts to demand
Bernanke Cloture Vote on Thursday
From Politco’s Playbook: On the pending vote to confirm Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to a second term: A senior administration official, from downtown: “It's amazing that Senate Rs can barely muster a majority for a Republican who was named TIME's ‘Man of the Year’ and who...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/27/2010
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. Few Lawmakers Embracing Spending...
Options For Restoring Fairness To Elections
Senate Rejects Undemocratic Debt Commission, Obama Expected To Launch His Own
The progressive coalition against fiscally foolish austerity scored a significant victory today, defeating the undemocratic Conrad-Gregg deficit commission in the Senate. We've prevented the Pete Peterson scare rhetoric from making the Senate junk their own rules and...
On Climate: Do Something
With a climate protection and clean energy jobs bill already facing stiff resistance in the Senate, I was afraid that the post-Massachusetts election fallout would bury it for the year. But fear not! Bipartisan Senate negotiations continued literally a day after the...
Financial Reform: We Can't Afford To Lose
Finance/Insurance/Real Estate 2010 election cycle so far: $$85,064,470. (2008 cycle: $476 million, 2006, $260 million) Lobbying: $336.9 million in 2009; $459,8 million in 2008. Loans Commercial banks September 2009 $6.537 trillion; September 2008, $6.942 trillion;...
How To Dump the Teabaggers
Tea bags are meant to be tossed out. They are useful, at most, once or twice in their lifetimes. Beyond that, they lose flavor and strength, eventually becoming weak as water itself. If kept around beyond their usefulness, they become unpleasant and even unhealthy, as...
Duck and Cover: The New Obama Program
"Our government," wrote Justice Lewis Brandeis, "is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." And also by what its leaders frame as important. No one has greater ability to teach than the president with what...
