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The GOP and Obama's Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 4 of 4
From the moment he was sworn in as president, what's bothered many conservatives most about Barack Obama was that he was a Black man who seemed pathologically incapable of "knowing his place." Conservatives from Peggy Noonan to (most recently) Grover Norquist have...
Progressive Breakfast
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s got the better plan for making spending go down some more. If...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Six Things You Can’t Talk About in Washington OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s...
Progressive Breakfast
OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s got the better plan for making spending go down some more. If...
The CBO Report: Six Things You Can't Talk About in Washington
Whom the gods would destroy, the old saying says, they first make mad. And there's no quicker way to become completely untethered than to read economic reports, including the latest one from the Congressional Budget Office, and then watch the political debate go on as...
House Conservatives Disregard The Damage Their Austerity Bomb Would Cause
Do House Republicans really believe they have their constituent’s best interests at heart? Obviously not, due to their receptiveness to deep cuts in vital social programs while simultaneously safeguarding the wealthiest American’s from paying more. Do House...
They Talk Deficits Instead Of Jobs -- It's Corruption
Washington is back to talking about deficits and not about jobs. Didn’t we just have an election? Didn't we vote to tax the wealthy, provide public services and benefits and provide people with jobs? Isn't the deficit down 50% from where Bush left it? So why are even...
Why Eric Cantor Can't Rescue the GOP's "Lost" Message
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is working hard to rescue the GOP's "lost" message. You can't blame him for trying. There are, of course, several problems. Not the least of which is that it looks like GOP leadership still believes "message" and "tone" were what...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sequestering Hope OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Moderation in a madhouse is a dubious virtue. A balanced dose of poison may mask, but doesn’t stop the damage. Yet, this is what the president was reduced to in Washington Mad Hatter Budget Debate...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sequestering Hope OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Moderation in a madhouse is a dubious virtue. A balanced dose of poison may mask, but doesn’t stop the damage. Yet, this is what the president was reduced to in Washington Mad Hatter Budget Debate...
