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Obama's Chance To Stand Up To China
President Obama will get an opportunity in the coming weeks to show American workers that he has the mettle to get tough with China when that country flouts the basic principles of fair trade, and it will be on an issue in which he does not have the luxury of...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/22/2009
Will Senate Listen To 3/4 of US on Health Care? Second major poll finds huge support for public plan option. NYT: "72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — that would compete for...
RNC’s Michael Steele Becomes A Union Man
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele appears to be suffering from philosophical identity confusion. He’s got an organization named United STEELE Workers Union, white hardhat emblem and all, collecting members for him on Facebook. It had 255 worldwide as of June...
Rationalizing for the Rich: Cakewalk No More
In a down economy, apologists for the awesomely affluent are having to dig deep for inspiration. In the process, they're getting dirty and looking dopey. In tough economic times, work for some people can suddenly become significantly more difficult. Take, for...
Hey Moderates, Public Health Plan Option Will Cut Costs (And Other Fun Facts)
The Senate and the Beltway media got the vapors last week when the Congressional Budget Office estimated the government cost of two draft Senate health care proposals to be above $1 trillion. With the media presenting the preliminary CBO price tag devoid of any...
Proving We Can Afford Public Plan Choice
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been doing his best to block the most critical element of health care reform—a public health insurance option that can keep private insurers honest. Behind the scenes, progressive groups are preparing to fight back with the proposals that...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/19/2009
Baucus Draft Dumps Public Plan Option W. Post's Ezra Klein assesses new health care draft from Senate Finance Cmte: The numbers tell the story. In that plan, subsidies reached 400 percent of poverty. In this plan, they've been cut to 300 percent. In that plan,...
Firing Back on Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
It's been a wild couple of weeks for those of us in the wingnutology business. Our services have been in tremendous demand as the mainstream media tries to sort out the meaning of what Scott Roeder and James von Brunn did. I've done an average of one radio show every...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/18/2009
Despite Huge Support for Public Plan, Senate Slows Health Care Reform NYT offers misleading headline, "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care," yet NYT poll does not ask about the specifics of Obama's health care proposal. NBC/WSJ poll does ask, and finds...
The U.S. and India: Trading Jobs For Problems
I’m torn. On one hand, a wonderful event is taking place today, the annual U.S.-India Business Council “Synergies Summit” in Washington, DC. It is a high-powered business summit in the beautiful flag room of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. India West describes the...
