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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...
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?
Gunning for Mitch
Who knows if this is serious? But McConnell could very well end up with a Tea Party challenger. Remember now Senator Rand Paul's primary election night speech? Everyone says the Tea Party is dying. But it was never really alive. It was the wingnut zombie reanimated after the ignominious failure of their Dear Leader George W. Bush. They never really go away. And Kentucky is a place where they might just be able to get the job done. Rand Paul won his primary against McConnell's handpicked candidate.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "All 10 members of the GOP Governors’ Death Panel offer the same excuse for refusing to expand Medicaid in their states, or wanting to get full federal funding...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "All 10 members of the GOP Governors’ Death Panel offer the same excuse for refusing to expand Medicaid in their states, or wanting to get full federal funding...
Progressive Breakfast
"Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion
A growing number Republican Governors are refusing to expand their state Medicaid programs. The Supreme Court weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the Affordable Care Act, when it ruled that the federal government can't penalize states that refused the...
GOP Signaling Weakness
I hope Greg Sargent is right about this. It sure sounds like Boehner and McConnell are hedging to me. If they are,then that means any more "offers" from the Democrats to make a "big deal" are offers the Democrats want to make, not ones they have to make.
