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MORNING MESSAGE: Disarm The GOP Hostage Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "It is time to defuse the hostage-taking bomb. Do not negotiate with hostage-takers – and that includes shutdown threats ... How long have we been governed through hostage-taking, threats,...
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MORNING MESSAGE: Disarm The GOP Hostage Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "It is time to defuse the hostage-taking bomb. Do not negotiate with hostage-takers – and that includes shutdown threats ... How long have we been governed through hostage-taking, threats,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Disarm The GOP Hostage Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "It is time to defuse the hostage-taking bomb. Do not negotiate with hostage-takers – and that includes shutdown threats ... How long have we been governed through hostage-taking, threats,...
The Chamber of Commerce Speech We Really Wanted To Hear
The annual "State of American Business" speech delivered today by Thomas J. Donohoe, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was largely predictable and not particularly noteworthy. But it did contain one of those moments reminiscent of those oil company...
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...
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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...
