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How Bad Do You Want The Public Option?
As noted in today's Progressive Breakfast, the White House's stance on a public health insurance option is not new. The President and his staff have always made a strong argument for a public option, but have always refrained from refusing to sign legislation that...
Progressive Breakfast: White House Public Option Kabuki Deja Vu Theater
Progressives Fight Back Hard To Protect Public Option WH again tries to calm progressives after hinting at dropping public option. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: "An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/17/2009
Progressives Fight Back Hard To Protect Public Option WH again tries to calm progressives after hinting at dropping public option. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: "An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
Netroots Send Stern Message on Public Plan Option in New Poll
The progressive netroots send a strong message on health care reform in the annual Netroots Nation straw poll, placing the issue as the top strategic priority, and settling for nothing less than directing the federal government to provide the option of a public health...
Sticky Fingers: The Super Rich Set a New Greed Grab Record
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's awesomely affluent partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers. Emmanuel Saez, the Berkeley economist who many now consider the world’s top...
Valerie Jarrett Tells Progressives To 'Bring It On'
When Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's senior adviser, addressed sometimes tough questions from bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, there was a consistent theme: If progressives are going to have much sway in the Obama...
We Are All Steeworkers
So I took a tour of a steel plant today. There was a lot of hot, molten steel, but also high-tech computerized systems running the show, making sure just enough steel is poured into a mold at just the right temperature and speed, among many other functions. The...
Steel: Important To Us But Not Important To Us
I had the opportunity to tour a steel plant outside of Pittsburgh yesterday. (I am here for the Netroots Nation convention.) The word that keeps coming into my mind is "intense." I experienced intense heat, intense colors in the molten steel, and intense faces on the...
LiveBlogging Howard Dean
Sara Robinson liveblogs Howard Dean's talk at Netroots Nation, starting at 9am ET Friday morning. Come on by and join the chat! 8:55 There are a lot of people here, considering we were all up drinking past 1 am at vodka reception given at the nearby Andy Warhol museum...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/14/2009
Today's Breakfast will be a short one, as I am currently at the Netroots Nation conference Obama does Montana town hall today, then Colorado tomorrow. NY Times lays definitive smackdown on "death panel" smear: "...the rumor — which has come up at Congressional...
