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Progressive Breakfast - 2/11/2009
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...
Recovering Opportunity
This week President Obama promoted his much-needed economic recovery package in a prime-time news conference and a trip to economically depressed Elkhart, Indiana, where the unemployment rate has topped 15%. Cities and towns like Elkhart are bellwethers for where the...
"Know This If Nothing Else: This Was A Hate Crime"
Progressives around the country can breathe a little easier today: James Adkisson has been sentenced to life behind bars for the deaths of Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger, the Unitarian Universalist martyrs who died during his assault on their church in Knoxville,...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/10/2009
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...
Obama Attacks Education Cuts, Nelson Unable To Defend
Yesterday, President Barack Obama made clear he is not accepting the Senate "Gang of Moderates" compromise as is, while the Senate moderates failed to mount a logical defense of their cuts. In short, The Senate compromise on economic recovery means to prevent $70...
When Moderates Cause Extreme Damage
There are times when moderation is no virtue, and this economic recovery is one of those times. So let's be blunt about it: Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has been a leading obstructionist on the road to economic recovery. He, along with an infinitesimal group of Republican...
Our Phone Calls Are Working
Last week, Campaign for America's Future sounded the alarm that phone calls were running 100 to 1 against an economic recovery bill, giving Congress a false impression of what the American majority want
The Audacity of Hope Meets the Enormity of Inequality
Our new White House has begun a counterattack against America's grand divide between the rich and everyone else. But we face, new stats from the IRS make dramatically plain, a steeply uphill battle. Last Thursday, the day after President Obama announced a $500,000 cap...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/9/2009
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...
Gang Of Fools
Gangs are groups of hoodlums that commit crimes and terrorize neighborhoods. In the Senate, we have a Gang of Moderates, and they're a gang alright. A gang that is trying to commit crimes of humanity to the economic recovery bill. The Plum Line has the latest draft of...
