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Don't Feed The Blue Dogs
Yesterday, the Washington Post front page blared "Anger Over [AIG] Depletes Obama's Political Capital." And today, we see more vocal criticism from
Progressive Breakfast - 3/18/2009
Obama & America vs. Blue Dogs on Budget President Obama slaps obstructionists in budget remarks. "there are those who say the plans in this budget are too ambitious to enact; to say that -- they say that in the face of challenges that we face, we should be trying to...
Time To Dog The Dogs
Who stands in the way of the reforms vital to get us out of the deep hole we are in? Republicans, of course, have decided to be the party of "no," staking their future on President Obama's failure. But that isn't a surprise. The entrenched interests whose oxen get...
It's Not Just Rush
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Trounced in November's election, faced a popular president, and a voting public that seems to have rejected their conservative politics, now they're stuck with Rush Limbaugh as the de facto head of their...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/17/2009
Backlash Forces Bonus Reconsideration TPMDC reports on proposal to retract bonuses via tax: "Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the chairwoman of the Joint Economic Committee, has a novel solution to the AIG bonuses flap: levy a 100% tax on the company's senior executives...
The Lesson of Massachusetts
The New York Times has an article up that takes a look at the Massachusetts health care plan and it's problems dealing with medical costs, and underscores something we'll examine further in a report we're releasing tomorow: a plan like the Massachusetts plan —...
Progressive Breakfast: Gagging on AIG
AIG Bonuses Spark Outrage, Frustration LA Times reports on conversation between Treasury and AIG chiefs: In his initial call to Liddy, Geithner asked the AIG boss to renegotiate the bonuses, according to an Obama administration official who was not authorized to...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/16/2009
AIG Bonuses Spark Outrage, Frustration LA Times reports on conversation between Treasury and AIG chiefs: In his initial call to Liddy, Geithner asked the AIG boss to renegotiate the bonuses, according to an Obama administration official who was not authorized to...
'Hard Times' on Billionaire Boulevard
Forbes magazine, our globe’s premier scorekeeper for the games rich people play, last week delivered its latest annual tally of the world’s billion-dollar fortunes, the first since the world economy went into meltdown mode. The Forbes verdict: We’re...
The Working Poor Reality
As President Bush and conservative leaders were still touting the "soundness" of the economy in 2007, trends among the working poor were already beginning to tell a different story. After two years of declines in the number of people characterized as "poor" despite...
