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The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt 3
"I don't understand you Americans. You blow billions on a useless war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and billions more to bail out banks that nearly bankrupted the world economy, but you don't ensure healthcare for your own people. Even Obama can't make a difference. It's...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/18/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Dems & Snowe Prepare (Some) Changes To Baucus Bill Snowe, right-leaning Dem Senators release statement supportive of Baucus bill but short of endorsement....
Myths Of Protectionism Are Spread To Exploit Workers and the Environment
“Protectionism” is a very powerful word. In fact, simply evoking the word is capable of ending debate on any subject related to trade. Invoking the magic words, “You can’t do that, it would be protectionist,” settles all arguments. Why, exactly, is protectionism so...
Cantwell Joins Rockefeller. Can Baucus Bill Clear Committee?
Senate Finance Committee member Maria Cantwell said she won't vote for a bill without a public option, such as the Baucus bill. She said to McClatchy Newspapers, "I wouldn't vote for a bill that doesn't have Medicare reform and the public option. What would I tell the...
The Angelides Commission: Tell America What Happened
Today the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, modeled after the New Deal-era Pecora Commission, begins its investigation into possible misconduct by the financial sector causing last year's market meltdown. Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert...
Pecora II Meets, Grassroots Mobilizes
In their first meeting Wednesday, members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—often characterized as the second coming of the Pecora Commission that investigated the causes of the Great Depression—clarified how they see their mission and what we can expect....
CBO: Dumping Public Option For Co-Ops Does Not Save Money
The Congressional Budget Office gave Sen. Max Baucus' bill the best scoring yet for a health care bill. But his removal of a public health insurance option in favor of seed money for non-profit co-ops has nothing to do with it. Baucus' bill costs less in the eyes of...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/17/2009
Stingy Baucus Bill Repels Senators, Relieves Special Interests Obama holds health care rally in Maryland today. Balt. Sun: "...his latest appeal in what is quickly becoming the most extensive presidential selling job in years." Salon.com: "The whole point of the...
The Measure of Our Progress
In the previous post, I included a quote from Franklin Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders...
Obama Plans to Reform Economy, Not Just Health Insurance
Let's go back, just for a minute, to a time before screaming teabaggers, before Republicans decided to kill health insurance reform as a means to politically destroy this country's first African-American president. Try and remember what it was like before discussion...
