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Toxic Trade Kills: Government Regulation Essential to Protect Public from Unsafe Imports
With a motorcycle police escort, the United Steelworkers' "Toxic Trader" puppet lurched down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House, on his way to the Grand Hyatt Hotel on H Street in Washington, D.C. on July 9. That is where the Bush administration-backed Import...
Winning the Oil Drilling Debate
Earlier this week, MoveOn's Tom Matzzie raised the alarm about the success the alliance of conservatives and Big Oil has had in convincing voters that massive amounts of new drilling for oil is essential to solve our energy crisis. And he was right to. As he pointed...
McCain Channels Booker T. Washington
In a speech before the NAACP on Wednesday that displayed a remarkable but unsurprising detachment from the realities of the African-American community, it was nonetheless telling that Sen. John McCain, in reaching for a historical marker for his speech on equal...
Off To Netroots Nation
Most of us Campaign for America's Future bloggers are headed to Austin, Texas for the third annual Netroots Nation conference and what's sure to be the largest gathering of progressive bloggers to date. It's a notable moment for Netroots Nation as it changed its name...
Wall Street Socialism
This weekend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former head of the Goldman Sachs investment house, provided us with a perfect demonstration of Wall Street socialism. He announced that the Bush administration would seek congressional approval to bail out Fannie Mae and...
The Society of the Owned: Renters Owned
In a post-9/11 America that no longer "does" irony — or nuance, for that matter — it's not surprising that one of the significant ironies of the George W. Bush era went largely unnoticed. Six years after declaring the dawn of an "ownership society," intended to create...
The Era of "The Era of Big Government Is Over" Is Over
Interesting word we've been hearing on the campaign trail: government. Last week while campaigning in the "red" state of Georgia, Sen. Barack Obama took a swipe at McCain for not believing in government oversight of the financial industry. From USA Today: "Like the...
Round 1 of the New Health Care Debate
Consistent with the country's shift of the political center towards the left, veto-proof bipartisan majorities sent President Bush a bill that took a stand against the privatization of Medicare, reducing subsidies to private health insurance companies that offer...
You Sent A Message to Fox News
We asked you to send messages of progressive patriotism to Fox News Channel, and you did—194 pages worth, from war veterans, educators, grandmothers and grandchildren—all making the point that Fox News cannot continue its attacks on patriotic Americans. And, as...
What Bush Didn't Promise: Lower Gas Prices
President Bush just announced a lifting of the executive branch ban on most coastal drilling. It does not actually open up the coasts to drilling, because Congress would need to follow suit. The political intent is simply to put pressure on Congress to cave on...
