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Progressive Breakfast - 10/5/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Uncertainty Precedes Senate Finance Cmte Vote Dem holdouts on Senate Finance make final vote uncertain. W. Post: "...Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and John D....
The 2009 Forbes 400: The What-Me-Worry Gang
An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America's super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice. Tsunamis, we learned this past week, amount to equal-opportunity...
What "Capitalism" Is Not
If I were to summarize message Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story in one sentence, it would be this: Capitalism is not a form of government. That's the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the movie, via 1950s educational/propaganda films....
How The Climate Change Bill Can Help Save 4 Million Jobs
Taken out of context, this argument sounds almost like a right-wing or corporatist knock against the climate change bill that's pending in the Senate: The bill that was introduced this week by Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer could put at risk 4 million American...
Progressive Breakfast: Hope For The Public Option
Despite Sen. Max Baucus's best efforts to pronounce it dead, the public option keeps refusing to die in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told constituents late yesterday that "we are going to have a public option before this bill goes to the...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/2/2009
Despite Sen. Max Baucus's best efforts to pronounce it dead, the public option keeps refusing to die in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told constituents late yesterday that "we are going to have a public option before this bill goes to the...
Why Aren't We Sick Of It Yet?
When are we going to get sick of stories like this happening over and over again? Stacie Ritter stood outside health insurer Cigna Corp’s Philadelphia headquarters clutching photocopied pictures of her four-year-old, cancer-stricken daughters as she shouted "shame."...
John Boehner Admits He Is Completely Out Of Touch
We have long known that conservatives in Congress are hopelessly out of touch with both reality and the American people. So while it represented nothing new, House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) recent comments on health insurance reform made me do a double...
Progressive Breakfast: Senate Climate Battle Is On
The legislative battle to lower greenhouse gas emissions is finally getting into full gear in the Senate with Wednesday's introduction of a comprehensive climate change bill. McClatchy News Service reports: The landmark legislation -- called the Clean Energy Jobs and...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/1/2009
The legislative battle to lower greenhouse gas emissions is finally getting into full gear in the Senate with Wednesday's introduction of a comprehensive climate change bill. McClatchy News Service reports: The landmark legislation -- called the Clean Energy Jobs and...
