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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...
Financial Reform: Up To Us To Change The Game
There's a reason why lawbreakers don't get to negotiate the terms of their punishment or their parole. There is no bartering to be done between the protectors of law and order and the violators of law and order. There are only two basic questions for the person who...
Progressive Breakfast: Power to the Fed
Fed To Get More Reg Power Under WH Plan W. Post receives WH white paper for market reform: "The administration's plan leans heavily on the Fed, expanding its role as the regulator of the nation's largest banks … to include other giant financial firms …...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/17/2009
Fed To Get More Reg Power Under WH Plan W. Post receives WH white paper for market reform: "The administration's plan leans heavily on the Fed, expanding its role as the regulator of the nation's largest banks ... to include other giant financial firms ... The agency,...
Chamber of Commerce Sides with Foreign Embassies Against Buy American
There they go again. Those running the show at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are attacking again the Buy American provision in the economic stimulus package. Ignoring, once more, that Buy American makes fundamental economic sense by ensuring at least some of our...
Private Muscle And The Public Option In Health Care
We're headed into the end game for health care reform. The president has put himself in the arena. The insurance lobby is unleashing the scare campaign. A strong bill will pass the House. But at this point, too many senators are still standing in the way. The reform...
Business Mandate Good For Business
As the health care debate heats up, it becomes clearer why most politicians flinch from tackling major reforms, and why it's so difficult to engage grassroots citizens to influence policy debates. The clear philosophical debate -- should our government provide a...
Progressive Breakfast: Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis
Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis NYT and AP hand obstructionists new talking points and hype preliminary CBO analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care bill showing a "cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years but [would] only insure about 16 million" leaving...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/16/2009
Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis NYT and AP hand obstructionists new talking points and hype preliminary CBO analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care bill showing a "cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years but [would] only insure about 16 million" leaving...
