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Progressive Breakfast - 1/5/2010
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Dem Leaders Meet Today To Merge Health Care Bills WH, House and Senate leaders to meet on health care today. Politico reviews House strategy to strengthen...
Senate Health Care Bill Gets Upper-Hand In Final Talks? Let's Finish Reform Right.
The Huffington Post is reporting that the House-Senate health care negotiations are going to use the weaker Senate version as their starting point. Not an auspicious beginning for those with hopes of retaining any public option or removing the Senate's tax on...
It's 2010. Polls Show the Excise Tax is Still Unpopular.
A Washington Post poll taken in mid-October showed that 61% of people surveyed opposed the excise tax, with only 35% supporting it. A USA Today/Gallup poll taken at the same time showed essentially identical results, with 61% against the tax and 34% in favor. An...
Fiscal Times Scandal: 21 Experts Seek Meeting with WaPost Chair Don Graham
Today (Jan. 4) 21 policy experts sent a letter (below) to Washington Post Board Chairman Donald Graham, requesting a meeting. Why? Because we've gotten no response to our protest letter to The Washington Post's ombudsman. In that earlier letter we demanded an...
Learning From The Frustrations Of 2009
Just before the end of the year, Campaign for America's Future co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey shared what they learned after an action-packed 2009 in the battle for progressive change. The two shared four key lessons from the year. 1. Change is brutal,...
Progressive Breakfast: W. Post Scraps Objectivity, Backs Austerity Agenda
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. W. Post Hammered For Partnership With Austerity Ideologue Pete Peterson OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey sounds alarm at Fiscal Times-W. Post arrangement to...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/4/2010
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. W. Post Hammered For Partnership With Austerity Ideologue Pete Peterson OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey sounds alarm at Fiscal Times-W. Post arrangement to...
The Washington Post Lets Pete Peterson Write The News On The Deficit
On the last day of 2009, The Washington Post published an article, presented as a news story, which could be a signal of the death of the Post as an independent and objective news source. The piece, entitled "Support grows for tackling nation's debt,"...
Experts, Advocates Protest Washington Post "Content" Deal With Pete Peterson
On Thursday, December 31, The Washington Post published an article, presented as a news story, which could be a signal of the death of the Post as an independent and objective news source. The piece, entitled "Support grows for tackling nation's debt," appeared to be...
Trade Panel: China Steel Imports Violate Trade Agreements
America is fighting back against China's violations of trade agreements! Recently President Obama imposed tariffs following Chinese violations involving steel pipes and tires. (And jobs and factories are already starting to return.) Yesterday the U.S. imposed...
