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Wingnut Week In Review: The Walking Jeb
Jeb Bush says his campaign is not on life support, and he’s right. It’s long past that point. Bush’s campaign is more like “the walking dead”; lifeless, but lumbering along just this side of the grave.
Clinton Joins Sanders, O’Malley: Probe Exxon Climate Denial Funding
All three Democratic presidential candidates are now united in asking for a federal investigation into charges that Exxon knew of the dangers of climate change but helped fund climate-denial propaganda for profit.
Progressive Breakfast
Budget Deal Passes Senate clears budget deal. The Hill: "The deal was approved in a 64-35 vote after 3 a.m. after a late speech by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who criticized the legislation as a blank check for President Obama ... Thirty-five Republicans opposed the deal,...
What Do Candidates Propose To Boost the Stagnant Economy?
As the economy slows, are Republican candidates offering solutions that will help? Or are they proposing the same old anti-government austerity, tax cuts and deregulation they always do? What about the Democratic candidates?
What Did Rubio Actually Say?
Sen. Marco Rubio has been christened the winner of the last debate by the pundits after staring down Jeb Bush's attack on his senatorial attendance record. But what did he actually say about his ideas and policies?
Roxy The Bloodhound Tries To Sniff Out Secret TPP Text
The text of TPP is still secret -- even from Congress. Today, members of Congress brought out Roxy the “secret TPP text-tracking” bloodhound to try and help them sniff out what's in TPP.
Progressive Breakfast
BREAKING: Growth Slows GDP growths slows in 3rd quarter. BEA: "[GDP] increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent ... In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.9 percent ... The deceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected a downturn in private...
Standing In Solidarity With Low-Wage Workers At the U.S. Senate
On Wednesday, Senate staffers made a point of showing that they understand what low-wage cafeteria workers are struggling with. A petition drive is ongoing to call for their right to collective bargaining.
The CNBC Republican Debate: Bring In the Clowns
Arithmetic was the first casualty in the CNBC Republican Presidential debate. Logic became collateral damage. What John Kasich scorned as "fantasies" of those "who cannot do this job" ruled the night.
Elizabeth Warren Takes On 'Insider Washington' At CAF Awards Gala
"This would be good chance tonight to remind insider Washington, you are wrong," the Massachusetts senator said in her acceptance speech at CAF's Awards Gala, where she received the organization's Progressive Champion Award.
