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Republican Endgame Nowhere In Sight Obama and Boehner talk past each other, reports National Journal: "Obama said that if Congress were to pass a temporary bill to open government, he’d be willing to negotiate ... But Obama asserted that congressional Republicans...
Republicans Are Too Expensive – In Jobs and Dollars – For America
Journalists are understandably captivated by the government shutdown and the looming confrontation over the debt ceiling. The country may reject their conservatism for one simple reason: We just can’t afford it anymore.
Time For Speaker Boehner to Let The House Speak For Itself
At least 23 House Republicans and 200 Democrats would vote for a "clean" continuing resolution that would allow federal agencies to reopen without preconditions. But House Speaker John Boehner is refusing to allow that vote.
Coalition For Real Education Reform Emerges
As the country pivots from the failures of No Child Left Behind, a new coalition of labor and community has formed to press for real education reform based on values that made public education an enduring American institution to begin with.
Can Senate Democrats Prevent Disaster?
It's great that Senate Democrats are working on a plan to prevent financial disaster, but Americans would rather see Republicans end this economic hostage taking, and stop using our economy as a pawn in their political games.
A Revolutionary Change Of Revolutionaries
Whatever happens with the current shutdown and various hostage negotiations, the fundamental definition of the Republicans as the de facto competent party --- the proverbial grown-ups --- has probably finally been shattered.
GOP Shakedown
President Obama should counter with demands of his own, demands that Republicans approve legislation Democrats want but didn’t get passed through the normal, democratic, majority-rule process, like single payer health insurance, Medicare for all.
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Republicans Taking a Beating Republicans taking biggest hit in ABC/W. Post poll: "Seventy percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll disapprove of how the Republicans in Congress are handling the budget negotiations, up 7 percentage points from a week ago ......
The Voters Who Elected The Obstructionists
A Democracy Corps report challenges progressives to present a narrative and a set of values that speak broadly to the economic anxieties that most Americans share.
Ford Assembly Line -- 100 Years
This is the 100th anniversary of Ford's moving assembly line. The moving assembly line revolutionized manufacturing. The plant opened October 7, 1913 and one week later a Model T rolled off the line.
