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Progressive Breakfast - 7/23/2009
Obama Frames The Health Care Choice The Treatment's Jonathan Cohn praises presidential straight talk in last night's presser: Late in tonight's press conference, President Obama got a question that just begged for an easy, evasive answer ... whether he was prepared to...
American Protectionism is a Myth
A post by Leo Gerard and Scott N. Paul Our nation faces rising unemployment, staggering debts, shrinking trade, and no sense of when (and if) a real recovery -- one that reaches Main Street and working families -- will take hold. As the federal government responds to...
Making It In America
Washington's special genius is for gridlock. As we're seeing in the health care debate, the entire system is designed to frustrate action — even when Democrats have a popular president, 60 votes in the Senate and a large majority in the House. Moneyed interests trump...
Getting Mad At The Fed—And Getting Even
Normally, working-class people don't think much about the Federal Reserve and, as a recent article in The New York Times suggests, the Federal Reserve doesn't spend much time thinking about working-class people. But at a community meeting in Cincinnati Tuesday night,...
Progressive Breakfast: House Deal on Cutting Health Costs
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Cost-Cutting Health Commission Wins Support Blue Dogs give list of demands to WH. CQ Politics: "On Tuesday, members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/22/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Cost-Cutting Health Commission Wins Support Blue Dogs give list of demands to WH. CQ Politics: "On Tuesday, members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog...
We Need More Health Care Debate! = Filibuster
Today for the second day in a row, the President made formal remarks exposing the true agenda of the "don't rush health care" posse: "I understand that some will try to delay action until the special interests can kill it while others will simply focus on scoring...
Making It In America: A Key Progressive Objective
The widespread frustration with this nation's perceived lack of urgency and focus on industrial policy was captured well in Monday's New York Times article on the subject, which contained this sobering fact: "The United States ranks behind every industrial nation...
Progressive Breakfast: Health Care vs. Politics
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. President Takes On Obstructionist Foot-Draggers Obama tells PBS: "I want this done now. Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town. You've...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/21/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. President Takes On Obstructionist Foot-Draggers Obama tells PBS: "I want this done now. Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town. You've...
