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Michelle Rhee And The Relentless Marketing Of Education ‘Reform’
Is it over yet? Michelle Rhee's barnstorming of America this week, to hawk her new memoir, taxed the stamina of even the most ardent education wonk. It was a relentless PR campaign that would truly be the envy of any tobacco executive or gun manufacturer. In interview...
SOTU Challenge: When Talking Climate, Don't Forget The Green Jobs
Expectations are high for President Obama to get specific about his second-term plans to protect the climate, particularly regarding plans to bypass Congress and use the EPA's authority to further reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The appeal is obvious: no need to...
The Central Economic Problems Of Our Time: Ideological Fools
You know, I've been saying for a few years now that this is exactly what the right wing wants people to believe and have taken Democrats to task for helping them by making the idiotic argument about government being like a household and having to pull in its belt. Very Serious People told me that that's a hysterical reaction and that nobody's really making that argument. Well there's Marco Rubio making that argument.
I know my regular readers don't need this, but it's good to have it on the record. Travis Waldron at Think Progress explains why this is so wrong.
Sen. Sherrod Brown Proposes National Network of Manufacturing Innovation
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) and is drafting legislation to accomplish this. The legislation would help establish more next generation manufacturing centers like the National Additive...
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...
