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Progressive Breakfast - 2/13/2009
After the Economic Recovery Bill, What's Next? NYT editorial board offers a game plan for after the economic recovery bill: They need not, and should not, wait to start a foreclosure-prevention effort, but it’s not clear whether Mr. Obama’s team understands the scale...
Progressive Breakfast: Crunch Week
ACTIVISM UPDATE: Senate expected to pass econ recovery Tuesday. House-Senate conference to iron out differences immediately follows. Phone calls to Congress for a "big and bold" bill will be critically important all week. Presidential Campaign for Economic Recovery In...
Progressive Breakfast: A Doable Deal
TODAY: After filibuster squelched in Senate, final econ recovery vote NOON ET, House-Senate conf follows. Treasury announcement on financial bailout 11 AM ET. Presidential town hall in Florida NOON ET. TOMORROW: Thinking Big Conference featuring Paul Krugman, more...
Firing Back on the Obama Recovery Package -- Again
Progressive Breakfast: Deal!
Pass The Deal for 3.5M Jobs! Contact Congress Today! $790B Economic Recovery Deal Reached, Should Be Law By Monday Associated Press, Reuters and Grist offer dollar figures. Major items: infrastructure, clean energy, education, health care, aid to unemployed and poor,...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/12/2009
Pass The Deal for 3.5M Jobs! Contact Congress Today! $790B Economic Recovery Deal Reached, Should Be Law By Monday Associated Press, Reuters and Grist offer dollar figures. Major items: infrastructure, clean energy, education, health care, aid to unemployed and poor,...
Pass This Deal. Then Get Back To Work.
The House and Senate have a crafted a final deal for an economic recovery bill. Like with any compromise, there are things to like and not like. And no matter what the final result, everyone -- including the President -- understands this bill cannot be our final act....
Hire Hilda Solis, Already
Pop quiz. Three questions, and the first two don't count. Quick. Name the last time working Americans and their families had a friend in a presidential administration. Now, name ten good things conservatives — or conservatism — ever did for American workers. (And, no,...
Can't Get There From Here
The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant. Faced with the failure of Paulson—Bernanke banking bailout, the Obama...
Progressive Breakfast: Thinking Big
Thinking Big Conference TODAY, 9-5, featuring Paul Krugman and many others. Live streaming available at ThinkingBigConference.org. ABC's The Note reports: "Wednesday's 800-person gathering, which is taking place at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., is...
