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We Saved The Estate Tax
Congress passed the budget resolution for 2010 yesterday. The biggest progressive policy victory has already been well reported: the ability for Congress to use budget rules to pass health care reform and direct student lending with a simple majority vote in the...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/30/2009
Budget Passes With PAYGO Compromise W. Post on final passage of the federal budget: "...Democrats overwhelmingly endorsed the president's request for hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending over the next decade for college loans, early childhood education...
What The Right, And The Left, Doesn't Get About Race
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Progressive Breakfast: Does the Specter Switch Impact Issues?
Sharp Recession Continues GDP shrunk at annual rate of 6.1% in first quarter of 2009. Will Specter Switch Affect Health Care? Wonk Room's Igor Volsky: When it comes to health care reform, Sen. Arlen Specter may be one of the few (former) Republicans open to...
The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive
Somewhere back in February, about three weeks into the Obama Administration, everybody on the left suddenly noticed that there was something different going on with the conservatives. The outrageous screeds and paranoid delusions sounded pretty much as they always had...
Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?
Grading a president after 100 days always strikes me as presumptuous. The only real grade is an incomplete. And as good teachers will tell you, letter grades—as opposed to written evaluations—are inherently arbitrary and misleading. One thing is clear. If we're...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/29/2009
Sharp Recession Continues GDP shrunk at annual rate of 6.1% in first quarter of 2009. Will Specter Switch Affect Health Care? Wonk Room's Igor Volsky: When it comes to health care reform, Sen. Arlen Specter may be one of the few (former) Republicans open to...
At The 100-Day Mark, Climate Is Losing
At the 100 Day mark of the Obama Era, climate protection is behind health care for all. This shouldn't be and isn't a contest. Solving both domestic crises is critical to sustain our economy and our planet. And the fact that health care is farther along the political...
The Financial Warning Almost Everyone Ignored
The warning, in retrospect, could not have been any clearer. It led to this unambiguous headline on CNN.com on September 17, 2004: "FBI warns of mortgage fraud 'epidemic'." Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker said the booming mortgage market, fueled by low interest...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/28/2009
Budget Deal Fast-Tracks Health Care, May Put PAYGO On Path Politico: "The more immediate fight will be health care, where the budget gives Obama an invaluable backstop if Republicans attempt to stall this initiative past Oct. 15. Conrad said Democrats are still...
