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Second Thoughts on Health Exchanges and Hill Staffers
The other day I used a Politico story about Congressional staffers and health benefits to make some points about health reform. The Politico article was essentially a GOP-planted attack on “Obamacare” which exploited the fact that Representatives and their staff are...
When You Cheapen One Life, You Cheapen Every Life
This week Slate columnist Matt Yglesias became the latest in a long list of commentators, analysts, and politicians to be seduced by the alluring notion that you can quantify, measure and model the value of a human life in intellectually stimulating, value-free, and...
Enough Is Enough: Take Action Today To Fix A Broken Senate
Today, the Campaign for America's Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is enough. End the obstruction. Stop the constant abuse of the filibuster....
Wrong Lessons From Sandy Hook
There have been plenty of negative reactions to last week’s defeat of gun regulation in the U.S. Senate. In his Rose Garden address, President Obama was incredulous that legislation favored by 90 percent of Americans couldn't get 60 votes.
Obama Budget Splits Dems "Obama Budget Strategy Irks Democrats" reports Roll Call: "Several Democratic sources outside the White House ... said Obama’s budget release this week is not just a bad bargaining stance but also another instance in which the president...
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Budget Splits Dems "Obama Budget Strategy Irks Democrats" reports Roll Call: "Several Democratic sources outside the White House ... said Obama’s budget release this week is not just a bad bargaining stance but also another instance in which the president...
Sequestering the Friendly Skies
Here's one for the "We Told You So, Republicans" file. As it turns out, when you cut government spending arbitrarily and across-the-board it can affect things that your care about and rely on.
When Senators Vote Against Voting (And Reporters Don't Report It)
The New York Times got a key fact wrong today when it wrote that Mark Begich, the Democratic Senator from Alaska, “voted against a measure to expand background checks” for gun purchases. But we doubt that Begich will complain: The truth is much worse. Thanks to...
It's Hard Out Here For An Austerity Pimp
David Frum published an interesting letter from one of his readers the other day on the Reinhardt-Rogoff brouhaha. It provides a fascinating rundown of all the cracked economics that have dominated the debate for the past few years: The Reinhart- Rogoff paper that has...
Progressive Breakfast
Sequester In The Air Air travelers suffer major delays as sequester furloughs kick in. The Hill: "Airlines and organizations representing pilots put the blame for the delays squarely on the furloughs, while Republicans said the Federal Aviation Administration was...
