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The Necessity of the Public Option
Ezra Klein on the Washington Post recently argued that progressives should bargain away the current version of the public option in pending health care legislation in exchange for other reforms such as bigger subsidies, tougher rules on demographic discrimination and...
Bernanke: 'The Definition Of Moral Hazard'
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke employed his characteristic smoothness and conciliatory nature as he navigated the questioning at today's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, helped by the largely gentle questioning by Democrats on the...
Progressive Breakfast: Jobs Summit & Bernanke Hearing Today
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Job Ideas Abound In Advance of Today's WH Summit House leaders looking at TARP funding for jobs. Politico: "…House Democratic leaders are floating the...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/3/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Job Ideas Abound In Advance of Today's WH Summit House leaders looking at TARP funding for jobs. Politico: "...House Democratic leaders are floating the idea of...
Sanders Puts Hold on Bernanke Nomination
Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will put a hold on the Bernanke nomination. Sanders wants the Finance Committee to hold serious hearings probing Bernanke's actions leading up to the financial collapse, and the emergency measures he took, committing literally...
Job Creation Vs. The Deficit Fearmongers
House of Representatives staffers who take the District's subway system to work are now confronted with a host of scary images as they exit the station: A forlorn Uncle Sam panhandling to pay off a $12 trillion debt; a stopwatch with the message that it would take...
Before You Appoint Ben, Audit Ben
Progressive Breakfast - 12/2/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Afghan Address Receives Tepid Response Some Dems pledge to try to block plan. USA Today: "...Obama [is] facing a potential mutiny on this issue among liberal...
If Sarah Palin Knew Anything
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson "Keep the faith," Sarah Palin says to Canadian conservatives. "Your health care system could be worse. But only if you work hard...
Imperial Blues
..."[O]ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended -- because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own."—President Obama But Afghanistan comes first? President Obama made the best possible case for dispatching more troops to...
