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Obama's Next Gauntlet: Reviving the Middle Class
It ain't easy. No use jokin'. Everything's broken."-Bob Dylan We can't go back to the old economy. That economy -- marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits -- didn't work very well for...
How the Government Enabled the SUV Craze
Far be it from me to criticize anyone in government. (Yeah. Right.) But there's something that's been on my mind ever since people started piling on the auto industry, and this comment from Rahm Emmanuel brought it back to mind. The president's chief of staff...
A United Middle-Class. Eeek!
The SEIU has a brilliant new video skewering corporate executives and lobbyists pathetically trying to stoke panic around the Employee Free Choice Act, which will simply give employees the power to decide how to approach the question of unionization: be it ballot...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/3/2009
The Stock Market Is Not The Economy Useful reminder from Dean Baker: "The Washington Post told readers that 'Stock Sell-Off Spurs Fears That Slump Will Worsen.' Among whom did it raise such fears? Anyone who bases their expectations for the economy on the stock market...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/2/2009
Budget Battle Begins White House vs. Right-Wingers, The Sequel. W. Post reports: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel portrayed the president's budget -- which envisions huge investments in alternative energy, education and health care while raising taxes on top...
Progressive Breakfast: Transformational Budget
Ready For Resistance WH signals it's ready to fight obstructionists for critical needs. W. Post: Obama will face increasing partisan opposition to major elements of his plan, even as he attempts to change the tone of political debate in Washington. But he may run into...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/27/2009
Ready For Resistance WH signals it's ready to fight obstructionists for critical needs. W. Post: Obama will face increasing partisan opposition to major elements of his plan, even as he attempts to change the tone of political debate in Washington. But he may run into...
A CPAC Prediction: Another Ann Coulter Tantrum
The President's Budget: Turning The Ship of State Around
Today's presidential budget proposal if enacted would be the second step, following the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, in turning the ship of state away from the cliffs of conservatism and on the path of active progressive government. At least on the...
Finally, a president who works for workers
It would be easy in these troubled times to shrink from campaign promises, to cower from the greatness that might have been, to claim that the beast of the Bush recession had devoured the nation’s potential to achieve great goals. President Barack Obama chose instead...
