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Progressives Successfully Alter The Town Hall Narrative
Our own Roger Hickey was featured on MSNBC's The Ed Show yesterday, discussing the broad progressive response to the lobbyist-funded right-wing attempt to seize the congressional town halls. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/7/2009
9.4% Unemployment rate ticks down to 9.4%. AP: "Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. It was a better than expected showing that offered a strong signal that the...
On Sotomayor, Conservatives Choose The Wrong Side of History
In my personal experience, nothing makes a conservative madder than observing that the history of conservatism is sullied with racism. You'll immediately get an earful about Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd and his past with the KKK, as if the fact that many 60s-era...
Dick's Army
Another day, another town hall meeting, another angry mob of right-wing fanatics promoting lies and trying to shout down democratic discourse. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) was just one of many Democratic members of Congress to be descended upon by the angry right-wing...
Jobs Don't Live Here Anymore
The unemployment data is due tomorrow, and it's likely to be bad, with an expected 300,000 to 320,000 jobs
Q&A with Peter Navarro: Macroeconomic Expert and Best-Selling Author on China
Leo W. Gerard: Your chapter in the new book, “Benchmarking the Advantages Foreign Nationals Provide their Manufacturers,” describes in devastating detail how China in particular, but also other major U.S. trading partners, violate international rules. The abuses you...
Only A Lobbyist-Funded Mob Would Chant "What's Wrong With Profit?"
TPMDC picked up a Napa Valley Register report and separate editorial on another right-wing disrupting the town hall featuring Blue Dog Dem Rep. Mike Thompson. The initial article reported: Shouts of “This is America!” and “What’s wrong with profit?” emerged from a...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/6/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bipartisan Deal Would Save Money By Covering Fewer People Preliminary Baucus caucus deal has no public option and covers less people than current bills. W....
Manufacture Or Borrow (Until We Can't)
When things are going wrong it is often good practice to go back and review the basics, and start again. In baseball you go back to batting and fielding practice. To master a musical instrument you practice your scales every day. Things have gone wrong with our...
Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself...
