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Progressive Breakfast - 6/1/2009

It's an auspicious day for the auto industry, workers, American manufacturing, and the president who inherited the consequences of the previous administration's policies — not to mention thirty years of disastrous conservative economic policies — as two of...

Progressive Breakfast: Economic Potholes and Patches

Yesterday's furrowed brows over the long-term prospects for the American economy have been replaced for the moment by raised eyebrows at this morning's Commerce Department report that the economy shrank during the first quarter by 5.7 percent—bad, but not as mad as...

Progressive Breakfast - 5/29/2009

Yesterday's furrowed brows over the long-term prospects for the American economy have been replaced for the moment by raised eyebrows at this morning's Commerce Department report that the economy shrank during the first quarter by 5.7 percent—bad, but not as mad as...

Breaking Down the Status Quo in Six Easy Steps

One of the things I'm really liking about the new regime is the way the stark, terrified silence of the Bush years is giving way to noisy, energetic public discussion of subjects that would have been considered hardcore political pornography just a year or two ago....

Progressive Breakfast: Rice, Beans and Sotomayor

Silly season continues on Capitol Hill and in conservative circles as the offensive against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor goes into overdrive. Political Animal points to a news item in The Hill: Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being...

Progressive Breakfast - 5/28/2009

Silly season continues on Capitol Hill and in conservative circles as the offensive against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor goes into overdrive. Political Animal points to a news item in The Hill: Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being...

Betting on Failure: The Right's Story

Congressional Republicans are marginally more popular and significantly less contagious than the swine flu. Even conservatives are keeping their distance. House leader John Boehner's perpetual tan has become a presidential punch line. Senate leader Mitch Dr. No...

Center-Left America

The wind is at our backs. The media still calls America a “center-right” nation, but “center-left” is closer to the truth. On issues ranging from health care to energy, the public is more progressive than people think. Demographic groups from youth to Hispanics are...

Progressive Breakfast: Near Certain GM Bankruptcy

Confirmation Expected of First Latina Supreme Court Justice NYT sizes up the SCOTUS battle ahead, or lack thereof: "The left was quiet Tuesday. Aside from commending the president’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, most liberal groups kept their comments to a minimum so...

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