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The Missed "Clinton Moment" and "Deval Moment"
Robert Borosage has asked us on this site—bloggers and commenters alike—to explore "How Do We Seize The Obama Moment?" and substantively advance a bold progressive agenda, after laying out an "inside-outside" activist strategy with Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Nation....
A Call For 'Revolution' To Counter The Middle-Class Collapse
On "Meet the Bloggers" Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that there is a "collapse" of the middle class and that nothing short of a revolution will be needed to reverse it. "What we really need is a political revolution in this country," Sanders said, beginning...
Weekend Watchdog Wrapup
It looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, even with an opportunity to ask two questions of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. There was one tantalizing moment on NBC's Meet the Press, when host David Gregory pressed Sec. Rice on the U.S. role in...
Conservative Clarifies: "All Of The Above" Means "All The Drilling We Want"
In the latest edition of "The Week in Blog" over at bloggingheads.tv, the Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll and I talked about the conservative blog reaction to the "Gang of 10" compromise, which would allow some drilling off the southeast coast in exchange for the...
How Do We Seize The Obama Moment?
When Sen. Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, new possibilities will be born. Obama may not be a "movement"...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
This Week In "Insurance Company Rules:" Joys of the Market Edition
This week, the health insurance lobby continues it's "listening tour" by hosting a staged event in an undisclosed location where it could hear nothing it didn't want to hear, and didn't want you to hear. On the flip side, Health Care For America Now sought to amplify...
New Signs Of A Middle-Class Collapse
A hearing in late July on the middle-class squeeze by the congressional Joint Economic Committee did not get much attention at the time, but a warning at that hearing by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that what's happening to the middle class is not just a squeeze but a...
Losing to China Where It Matters
Somewhat buried in the news this week was a forecast by Global Insight, a U.S. consulting firm, that China would overtake the United States as the leading global manufacturer in 2009. That forecast deserves more attention, because American workers want and need real...
For Conservatives, "All of the Above" Means "No Clean Energy"
Conservatives know that after eight years of keeping America dependent on oil, they can't easily promote another Big Oil giveaway. So the message mantra around coastal drilling is "All of the Above." "All of the Above" is supposed to mean that we need to do...
