Archive
Behind The Financial Debacle: Conservative Misrule
How did it come to this? The banksters issue a threat: Hand over $700 billion in taxpayers’ money–on top of the $600 billion already forked over–or we’ll take down the global economy. There will be a lot of obfuscation—fingers pointing every which way—but the story is...
Weekend Watchdog Wrapup
What a weekend it was for the watchdog, and the rest of the country, as we literally watched history unfold from our respective perches. So much history, that it made it kind of hard to keep score, but we're going to call it 2-for-3 for the watchdog this weekend. On...
Conservatives Derail Energy Compromise In Senate; Drilling Ban Expires in 8 Days
Last week, the House passed a compromise bill with more coastal drilling and more clean energy without the support of conservatives. The Senate had been expected to follow suit -- since it was the "Gang of 10" group of Senators who had the original idea of such a...
Shock Doctrine: Will We Get Fleeced In This Crisis?
Call it extortion. Every American is told to ante up $2,000—an estimated $700 billion in all—to bail out the banks from their bad bets, or they’ll bring down the entire economy. In a speculative frenzy that allowed the Masters of the Universe to pocket millions...
Weekend Watchdog
After an exhausting week of gasps and gaffes, mostly related to the economy, it's time for another weekend watchdog. All week long, the headlines have been blaring news of bankruptcy, bailouts, and buyouts up and down Wall Street. Most of us probably have more...
Walking and Chewing Gum
The challenges facing Americans today tend to be framed in the media and on the campaign trail as a daunting and often depressing laundry list of economic and social woes: home foreclosures and bank failures, rising health care costs and falling wages, underfunded...
Where's Our Bailout?
Almost overlooked in this morning's extraordinary headlines about government intervention to protect the nation's financial system from collapse was the failure of the House of Representatives on Thursday to act on a $50 billion stimulus package for the rest of us....
Make It Plain: McCain Plan Raises Taxes, Cuts Health Coverage
If Sen. John McCain isn't going to be honest about the impact of his health care plan, we're just going to have to get louder and more blunt about it. We've said it before, but it bears repeating: When McCain says he won't raise taxes, he's wrong. His health care plan...
Conservatives Stay Under The Covers With Big Oil
As predicted here last week, House leaders put an "All of the Above" energy bill on the floor. And conservatives in Congress -- who pretended to support an "All of the Above" energy policy all summer -- rejected it, staying under the covers in bed with Big Oil. The...
The One-Sided Idea War
Not only did Institute for America's Future launch our Op-Ad series this week, putting the focus on progressive principles that can solve the big crises facing America, but the Progressive Ideas Network -- a coalition that includes Campaign for America's Future --...
