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Don't Expect Much About The Budget In Tonight's State of the Union
Quick note about tonight's State of the Union Address: I'm not expecting too much to be said about the budget, deficit or debt. This is not to say that the president won't mention the budget, just that I expect he'll do so in sweeping, grandiose terms rather than with specifics. He'll likely call for a process that moves comprehensive tax and entitlement changes, for example. Stopping the constant warfare on the budget may also be an applause line.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The State of the Union Stakes OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the president has little choice but to focus on the central challenge now facing the country – and his emerging progressive coalition today. That is the same challenge that drove the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The State of the Union Stakes OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the president has little choice but to focus on the central challenge now facing the country – and his emerging progressive coalition today. That is the same challenge that drove the...
Progressive Breakfast
President Obama Must Speak the Word Union Loudly
President Obama demonstrated his gutsiness in recent months by speaking so many words that craven politicians contend cannot be spoken. These are hot-button words like same sex-marriage, immigration reform, gun control and climate change. Fighting words. The president...
9 Steps the President Can Announce Tonight to Help Homeowners And Create Jobs
"Reviving his populist re-election message," says the Washington Post about tonight's State of the Union speech, "President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer spending cuts." Messages like that are always...
State of the Union Challenge: A Five-Year Jobs Plan
The previews of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday promise that job creation will be a major focus – a welcome development in the face of Washington's debilitating and wrong-headed obsession with deficit-cutting. But what's really important is...
SOTU Challenge: Meeting Million New Manufacturing Jobs and Doubling Exports Commitments
Before the election President Obama set a goal of doubling exports and creating one million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016. What has to happen for these goals to be met? In The State of the Union Stakes Bob Borosage points out the stakes and challenges that...
The SOTU of Our Dreams
Bill Moyers asked a bunch of smart people what they would like to see the President say in the State of the Union address this year. Their answers are all good and I urge you to read them. if we could put them all together it would make a hell of a speech. The one...
No Budget No Pay Really Means No Budget
Anyone who thinks H.R. 325 -- the No Budget No Pay law that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants everyone to believe will do so much and be so important -- will, in fact, make any difference is both falling for Boehner's spin and doesn't understand how the congressional budget process really works.
