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The Worst of the Week for January 24, 2014
This has been a rough week for the American right. Some of its brightest stars now seem to be plummeting to the earth. Meanwhile, every time conservatives opened their mouths, they widened the chasm between the GOP and mainstream America.
With Dimon Raise, JPMorgan Chase’s Board Confirms That Crime DOES Pay
What do you give a Wall Street CEO who has presided over a decade of fraud and criminality, who directly supervised a unit which lost $6 billion through incompetent and illegal trading, and whose reign of crime and mismanagement has cost his institution $20 billion in...
Explanation is Eloquence: What The State Of the Union Should Say
President Obama faces a skeptical people as he prepares his State of the Union address, most of whom are convinced the country is on the wrong track. He must show them once more he is on their side.
Progressive Breakfast
Unemployment Insurance Battle Rejoined Dems renew push for jobless aid. The Hill: "Democrats will hold a national conference call Friday to highlight that the number of people who have lost unemployment benefits has reached 1.6 million ... Democratic lawmakers plan to...
They're Fast-Tracking the Future, TPP Style – But We Can Stop Them
This could become the model for a new and profoundly subversive model of governance, in which elected government becomes little more than an afterthought to corporate-backed deal-making. But the fight isn't over.
When Huckabee Supported Government-Mandated Birth Control Coverage
Nine years ago, Huckabee thought that the government should ensure that everyone had access to contraception. Then Barack Obama became President. Meet the new Uncle Sugar, same as the old Uncle Sugar.
Getting Trade Right Instead of Fast
Here's what President Obama should say about fast-track authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the State of the Union: I’m dropping my request that Congress give me fast track authority. I’d rather get it right than get it fast.
Is Debt Limit The Next Republican Economic Sabotage?
The threat alone does damage. And they know that. And then they make the threat that does the damage. At what point does it become clear that harming the economy is the idea?
Sabotage In Plain Sight
Conservatives are pushing back at the charge they are sabotaging Obamacare. They insist it's just imploding all on its own (despite the fact that it actually isn't.) But in one case, they're just admitting it right up front.
Progressive Breakfast
Inequality To Be Spotlighted In SOTU Inequality, minimum wage to be Obama's focus in SOTU. The Hill: "A president who has yet to add to the big legislative accomplishments of his first term will call for raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour and extending federal...
