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"Sacrificing Left and Right"
I missed president Obama's press conference. (Probably because it took place during the 2.5 hours of family time we have — including dinner — before the kids go to bed, and because afterwards I was either too busy catching up on reading and/or writing, or too tired to...
Progressive Breakfast: Boom Lowered on Big Auto
Boom Lowered on Big Auto USA Today reports on new WH demands for an auto rescue plan: President Obama will announce Monday that his auto task force does not believe the plans General Motors (GM) and Chrysler delivered in February can result in viable companies and...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/30/2009
Boom Lowered on Big Auto USA Today reports on new WH demands for an auto rescue plan: President Obama will announce Monday that his auto task force does not believe the plans General Motors (GM) and Chrysler delivered in February can result in viable companies and...
Down But Not Out at $464 Million a Year
Not everyone in the international hedge fund industry is making millions. Not everyone in the hedge fund industry right now even has a job. Amid the worst global economic meltdown since the Great Depression, hedge funds are hemorrhaging positions. An estimated 20,000...
A Dead-End "Road to Recovery"
I don't know whether to praise the Republicans or pity them. On one hand, they've been given chance after chance to "bring it," in term of ideas to address the crises we face — an act of astounding generosity, if you ask me, extended to a party that...
Avoiding Quagmire In Afghanistan
The essence of President Obama's analysis of the right-wing "war on terror" is dead-on: The Bush administration's reframing the phenomenon of rogue extremists as a presumptively defined group of "terrorists" who can be defeated in a "war" led us down a path in which...
Economic Terrorism
Corporate opponents of workers' freedom to form unions repeatedly have shown they are not interested in the welfare of their employees or any of the pseudo-lofty ideals they cite while fighting the Employee Free Choice Act. Now, they've made clear they will do...
Progressive Breakfast: Simple Majority Rule Not Dead Yet
Budget Moves To Full Votes Next Week, Simple Majority Rule Still On Table Budget expected to pass next week. W. Post: "Voting along party lines yesterday in the Senate and late Wednesday in the House, the budget panels agreed to support a spending blueprint that would...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/27/2009
Budget Moves To Full Votes Next Week, Simple Majority Rule Still On Table Budget expected to pass next week. W. Post: "Voting along party lines yesterday in the Senate and late Wednesday in the House, the budget panels agreed to support a spending blueprint that would...
Progressive Breakfast: Targeting The Obstructionists
Targeting The Obstructionists Hotline On Call previews next stage in Campaign for America's Future effort to pressure obstructionists to support Obama budget: "Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage and USAction president William McNary will join...
