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Beware the New Corporate Tax-Cut Scam: LIFT Is A Big LIE
First it was Fix the Debt, with tax-dodging corporations "leading the charge for massive new corporate tax cuts paid for with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." Now there's a new "LIFT America coalition," pushing for massive, massive corporate tax cuts,...
Tell Your Senators to Defend Social Security and Medicare by Supporting These Amendments
This week two Senate budget amendments could affect the future of everybody reading these words - presuming we live long enough to reach our retirement years. That's not an overstatement: The Sanders-Harkin-Hirono Amendment would prevent the government from cutting...
Mea Culpas, "The Arab Mind" and the White Man's Burden
David Ignatius wrote his Iraq mea culpa today and it's a good one. He admits that Iraq was an epic strategic blunder and that he was wrong to have been such an enthusiastic cheerleader for it. But in chronicling his mistakes, I find this one to be almost shocking coming from a sophisticated man of the world.
The Democratic Wing Of The Democratic Party
The House voted on budgets yesterday and austerity won. 84 Democrats voted for the jobs and growth "Back To Work Budget" from the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 102 Democrats voted against it. (1 voted "present" and 13 were not voting.) Here is the roll call vote...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 2014 - The Democrats’ Dilemma OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Voters tend to blame the party in power – the president’s party – for the economy. And the 2014 economy is likely to be lousy. Americans are struggling with falling wages and growing...
Home Opportunity at a Crossroads
Home Opportunity is at a crossroads, and with it the American economy. Misconduct by banks, inadequate rules, and lax enforcement have cost 4 million families their homes since the financial crisis began, devastated communities around the country, and triggered a deep...
2014: The Democrats' Dilemma
Washington has been fascinated by Republican self-laceration since the 2012 election. Karl Rove triggered a circular firing squad by vowing to take out unwashed challengers in GOP primaries. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal begged Republicans to stop being the “stupid...
The Price of Evil at JPMorgan Chase
$16 billion. That’s how much JPMorgan Chase has paid in fines, settlements and other litigation expenses in the last four years alone. More than half of that amount, $8.5 billion, was paid out in fines and settlements as the result of illegal actions taken by bank...
Sequester Hurts The Troops
The next time your Republican representative says they support the troops, laugh and call them a liar because they obviously don’t care enough to make sure the men and women in the military will be able to afford college. Due to the sequester many branches of the...
Back to Work Budget Is Defeated, But The Struggle Will Continue
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget, as expected, did not prevail on the floor of the House of Representatives today. It went down to defeat, 84-327. In fact, it did not even win support from a majority of Democrats. But it did win a dramatic...
