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Progressive Breakfast - 9/16/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Rockefeller Leads Dem Opposition To Baucus Bill Baucus bill greeted with Dem criticism and no GOP support. Bloomberg: "Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max...
Sen. Rockefeller Says No To Baucus Bill
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chair of the health subcommittee in the Senate Finance Committee, just announced on a media conference call with the Institute for America's Future, that there is "no way" he will vote for the new bill drafted by Sen. Max Baucus. At the top of...
The ACORN Vote: End The Appeasement
Last night, on a 83-7 vote, the Senate voted to bar ACORN from receiving any funds in the fiscal 2010 Transportation and HUD appropriations bills. If the House follows suit, that would effectively end several housing assistance and advocacy programs that ACORN has...
The Mugging of the Common Good
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ....The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand -- William Butler Yeats President Obama traveled to Wall Street on...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/15/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Baucus Plan Appears To Make No One Happy Democrats unhappy with effort to make coverage affordable. W. Post: "Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) declared himself...
The 1st (And Hopefully Last) Annual 9/12 Teabagger Sign Awards!
So I went to check out Glenn Beck's little 9/12 Project teabagger rally in front of the Capitol on Saturday and saw a great cross-section of what "real" Americans supposedly look like. First, a little background for those of you who aren't familiar with the premise of...
Finally, a President with the Guts to Enforce Trade Laws
Barack Obama proved Friday he's got grit. He enforced trade laws. These are special trade safeguard rules called "Section 421" that the Chinese had agreed to obey to gain entrance to the World Trade Organization (WTO). They are, however, laws that had gone unenforced...
76% Support Restricted Public Option ... Which Is What's In The Bill
ABC News' polling director Gary Langer makes a notable observation about the W. Post/ABC health care polls from today and June: "[Our] June poll found that support for a public option drops dramatically if it would put many private insurers out of business, as critics...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/14/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Prez Heads To Wall Street To Recharge Reform Effort LA Times previews financial reform speech: "The momentum for those reforms has been weakening recently as...
The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 1
During Take Back America 2008, I spent part of a day running around with a camera and a microphone asking people which issue was most important to them in the upcoming election. Just when I thought I was done, the camera turned to me and I was faced with the same...
