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Frustrated? Tell Your Senators: "Fix The Filibuster!"
There is a big push going on to get the Senate to "fix the filibuster" so the majority can rule, and the minority will stop obstructing literally everything. Today is a DAY OF ACTION for contacting senators to let them know that you want them to FIX THE FILIBUSTER! Tell them to co-sponsor S.Res. 4, the Merkley-Udall Rules Reform Package.
Disarm The Hostage Bomb: Stop Governing Based On Threats, Intimidation And Lies
A nation whose constitution begins with the words "We, the People" should not be governed through threats and intimidation and lies. It is time to defuse the hostage-taking bomb. Do not negotiate with hostage-takers -- and that includes shutdown threats. The "fiscal cliff' was the result of the last debt-ceiling hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies...
Why Ronald Reagan Should Be on the $1 Trillion Platinum Coin
By now, you've heard all about the "platinum coin option", in which the president averts the next debt limit "crisis" by issuing a trillion dollar platinum coin. It's a solution right out out of The Simpsons. No seriously. It's episode twenty, season nine — "The...
StudentsFirst Rheeport Card Is More Education "Reform" For Reform's Sake
It's altogether fitting that this week's marking of the 11th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind legislation coincided with yet another groundbreaking, revolutionary, radical advocacy piece for "fixing" America's "broken" public school system. NCLB is now a policy...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Questions For Lew OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The International Monetary Fund just acknowledged that it underestimated the negative impact of government spending cuts. What will you do to prevent our own austerity measures from further harming the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Questions For Lew OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The International Monetary Fund just acknowledged that it underestimated the negative impact of government spending cuts. What will you do to prevent our own austerity measures from further harming the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Questions For Lew OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The International Monetary Fund just acknowledged that it underestimated the negative impact of government spending cuts. What will you do to prevent our own austerity measures from further harming the...
Lew For Treasury: Some Questions From the People
The job of Treasury secretary is arguably the most important one President Obama will fill in his second term. It's certainly the choice that will most affect the American people's daily lives, future hopes and aspirations. And it may well shape the president's...
Republicans Hilariously Floundering, Trying To Avoid Debt Limit Debacle
Congressional Republicans are really struggling to come up with a strategy for avoiding the blame if they refuse to raise the debt limit, allowing the Treasury to pay off the debts that Congress already voted to incur. Newt Gingrich already warned his party that...
Why DC Ignores Real Problems And What You Can Do About It
How many real and serious national problems can you list? And how many obvious solutions can you come up with literally off the top of your head? Now an experiment: list how many of them are being worked on by our DC elites or even discussed my our elite media? The answer is none. Why is this? And what can you do about it?
