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Will Everyone Grab a Bucket? This Thing is Sinking
Last year we worried about homes below water; now it is the economy itself that is sinking. Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy has "fallen off a cliff." And, as bad as the U.S. is, the rest of the world is worse. Germany's exports have collapsed; Japan is in free...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/11/2009
EFCA Introduced The Hill on EFCA's introduction: "[Rep. George] Miller and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) indicated Democrats are likely to start the bill in the Senate, where it faces a tougher path to President Obama’s desk." Politico: "Harkin says he’s hoping for a vote...
Progressive Breakfast: Employee Free Choice Hits Congress
EFCA Introduced Today Bloomberg reports Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller will introduce the Employee Free Choice Act today and that Dem Sens. Bayh, Bingaman, Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson (Neb.) and Pryor remain uncommitted. Media Matters: "USA Today, Politico...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/10/2009
EFCA Introduced Today Bloomberg reports Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller will introduce the Employee Free Choice Act today and that Dem Sens. Bayh, Bingaman, Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson (Neb.) and Pryor remain uncommitted. Media Matters: "USA Today, Politico...
Is Taxing the Super Rich a Waste of Time?
America's most financially fortunate, the cagier critics of President Obama are claiming, can sidestep any hike in the tax rate on high incomes. But history tells a different story. Last fall, in the Presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama promised to raise...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/9/2009
Calls For Additional Stimulus Krugman warns: "...Mr. Obama’s promise that his plan will create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010 looks underwhelming, to say the least. It’s a credible promise — his economists used solidly mainstream estimates of the impacts...
Like He Said
Oh, boy. It's gonna be a fun eight years if president Obama keeps giving interview answers like these. First, he exasperates and confounds conservatives by doing pretty much what he said he would do when he was just candidate Obama. (Somehow, that, plus his margin of...
An Election, a Budget, and Two Summits = A Bold Obama Strategy for Health Care Change.
Like most participants in President Obama’s Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our...
Goverment-Funded Health Care? We're Already Two-Thirds There
My fictitious conservative uncle—let's call him Uncle Con—is at it again. "Americans don't need socialized medicine!" he bellows, doing his very best Rush Limbaugh impression—which pretty much lets you know where this particular set of talking points came from. (When...
Scare Tactic Recycled: Unionizing Kills Jobs
Anti-labor forces this week are reprising an old argument about the Employee Free Choice Act: Making it easier for employees to join unions will cost employees their jobs. The latest entry in this fusillade of propaganda comes from something called the Alliance to...
