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Stronger Trade Policies From Obama's Trade Representative
In Pittsburgh today, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the Obama administration will take a more aggressive approach to supporting American industrial workers through greater protection of labor rights and more aggressive monitoring of overseas trade...
Harry Alford's Condescension
The right-wing blogosphere is abuzz over the supposed smackdown between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford, who portrays himself as an "African American and a veteran" who is insulted at Boxer's alleged racism and calls her on it. Well, as an African American I...
The Choice: Second Stimulus Or 'Lost Decade'
It's worth slogging through the minutes of the June Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Read the deliberations of the Fed board members and staff and you see an economic horizon that is much more dangerous than what is suggested by the assurances of the...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/16/2009
Oh Noes! Senate Bill Not Bipartisan. How Did It Ever Pass?! Senate health committee passes public plan option. Insurance lobby cries. W. Post: "President Obama's ambitious drive to overhaul the nation's $2.3 trillion health-care system cleared a key Senate committee...
Moral Authority: Walking the Walk versus Talking the Talk
One of the most schizoid aspects of Age of Reagan was the peculiar division of labor that developed between conservatives and progressives over the question of morality. Somewhere on the road between 1980 and 1994, the conservatives seized and locked down exclusive...
Let The Financial Inquest Begin
Now that congressional leaders have named the members of the Financial Services Inquiry Commission—what is often referred to as the "Pecora Commission"—we are going to see once again who is prepared to lay the groundwork for real financial reform...
Thank You Sarah Palin
Thank you Sarah Palin, for crystallizing the choice facing us on climate and energy. With her Washington Post oped, Sarah Palin is taking her position as the most popular Republican among Republicans to lead conservative opposition to the clean energy jobs and climate...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/15/2009
Cost-Saving Public Plan In House Bill The Hill on timing for legislation: "Three House committees will begin marking up their legislation before the end of the week, setting up what would be a historic vote on President Obama’s signature domestic issue in just over...
Winners and Losers: Wall Street Trumps the Real Economy
The irony is killing me. Two stories run next to each other in today’s (July 15, 2009) Washington Post. Together they show the triumph of the pseudo-economy over the real economy. Page A12 carries an article called, The Trickle-Down Effect: An Auto-Parts Maker Fades...
Hobbled, We're Losing The Global Energy Race
When the U.S. added modest “Buy American” provisions to the February stimulus bill to help keep (some) U.S. assistance in the U.S. economy, people cried foul. -- “A classic protectionist measure,” charged Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) chair of the Senate...
