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Progressive Breakfast - 6/2/2009
On morning after GM entered bankruptcy, President Obama tries to reassure the public about the government's "hands off" role, pundits ponder what it means for working class Americans, and investors barely notice, while taxpayers, auto-workers and retirees count their...
The Future of America and Manufacturing
In my house, we take a deep breath before calling or answering a call from Detroit. My spouse's family live in the suburbs of Detroit, and all work in the auto-industry. The headlines we read every day are one thing, but the real day-to-day impact of the news reported...
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...
Broken Dreams and Cookie Crumbs
When Brynwood Partners in 2006 took over the Stella D'o
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...
