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Fight For The Only Budget Plan That Matters
Are you in or are you out? That was George Clooney’s line in Ocean’s 11. Remember? “Tell me, right here … because if you’re out you can go back to feeling up stockbrokers.” Clooney’s movie was a remake of the Rat Pack film made in 1960, back when Democrats were...
Republicans Love Lucy
The GOP must really love the character that Lucille Ball created in the 1950s show “I Love Lucy.” Just as her husband Desi Arnaz, aka Ricky Ricardo, believed, the party thinks women are empty-headed twits.
Senators Roast JPMorgan Chase. Are The Winds Shifting For Diamond Jamie?
Forgive us if we begin our discussion of the Senate Subcommittee for Investigation’s JPMorgan Chase hearing with a small victory lap, but as they say down South, “It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.” We’ve been saying for years that JPMorgan Chase is fundamentally a...
ALERT: The 124 House Members Who Need Your Calls On The Back To Work Budget
There are 124 member of Congress who need to hear from you now about your support for the Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget. Between now and an anticipated vote on Tuesday, these offices need to be flooded with calls from constituents saying,...
Did You Know That The Chained-CPI Is Actually A Middle Class Tax Hike?
Did you also know that none of that, by law, can go to fund Social Security's projected "shortfall?" And that if they do change that law, it will forever put an end to the dedicated revenue stream that keeps SS out of the general budget? I'm afraid so.
Rand Paul Peddles Himself as the Conservative for the Facebook Generation at CPAC
Building on his media-star momentum coming out of last week's 13-hour drone-focused filibuster, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that put on display the tensions currently plaguing the Republican Party, and made a play for the party's future base, which he called the Facebook generation.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Which Budget Polls Best? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "...the Congressional Progressive Caucus 'Back To Work Budget' reflects what voters voted for and what polls show people want. And, much more importantly, the CPC “Back To Work Budget” reflects...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Which Budget Polls Best? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "...the Congressional Progressive Caucus 'Back To Work Budget' reflects what voters voted for and what polls show people want. And, much more importantly, the CPC “Back To Work Budget” reflects...
Whose Budget Polls Best – Ryan or Progressive Caucus?
There are two budgets in front of the House now. These are the "Back To Work Budget" offered by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Paul Ryan/GOP budget. Will the absolutely overwhelming (see polling below) wishes and needs of We, the People determine...
Seven Million Jobs, Two Budgets – And One Very Strange Tribe
Last night I returned from a nearly month-long trip to Africa. It’s profoundly unsettling to suddenly find oneself immersed in a primitive and superstitious culture – a culture dominated by taboos and rituals, a culture whose primitive beliefs could lead to its...
