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Progressive Breakfast - 6/15/2009
Obama Faces The AMA Health Care Blog's Michael Millenson previews today's presidential address to the AMA: "Look for Obama to remind the doctors how many more uninsured patients they’re seeing today and how much more involved Medicare has become in setting doctor pay...
Making Wall Street Safe Again for Windfalls
Remember that $500,000 pay cap for bailed-out banking execs the White House announced in February? Under Treasury Secretary Geithner’s new rules for bailout pay, that max has become a minimum. Early this past February, amid escalating public fury over $165 million in...
Memo to the Right Wing: Put Up or Shut Up
Dear Conservatives: Your fellow Americans demand an answer -- and we want it now. Just one simple question: Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war? Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don't insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/12/2009
Health Care Reform Hits the Road The health care reform battle is heating up on several fronts. While the president takes his reform message the people, the volunteers who powered his campaign are listening to Americans and gathering their stories. USAToday:...
Made in America: Corporate PR, Not Practice
Big Business wants it both ways: It wants to wrap itself in the ol' red, white and blue while feeding the decline of the U.S. economy through its actual practices. Here's the latest example of such corporate hypocrisy. Over the Memorial Day weekend, J.C....
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Threat To Capitalism
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched yesterday “a sweeping national advocacy campaign … to defend and advance America’s free enterprise values in the face of rapid government growth and attacks by anti-business activists.” The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t get it. They...
Progressive Breakfast: From Wall Street to Wisconsin to Health Care For All
Does the road to health care reform run through Wisconsin? Could the shape of health reform to come be based on a Wall Street model? Maybe, if you believe the reports that the health care reform outline circulating on the hill includes a scheme for a health insurance...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/11/2009
Does the road to health care reform run through Wisconsin? Could the shape of health reform to come be based on a Wall Street model? Maybe, if you believe the reports that the health care reform outline circulating on the hill includes a scheme for a health insurance...
Tragedy at the Holocaust Museum: Stand Up To Terrorism
The storm I've been warning about is coming in faster now. It is time for the right to stand up against the escalating tide of violence fueled by its own rhetoric. To get a sense of just how fast, you only need to take stock of what's been happening on the right wing...
Wall Street Journal Throws Citi Under The Bus
I stopped reading The Wall Street Journal editorial page when it soared off into wingnuttery, writing tomes on the imaginary conspiracy to off Vince Foster and other fantasies. The news pages remain useful; the editorial page hasn't improved much. But as they say,...
