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MORNING MESSAGE: Deficit Debate’s Sick Secret Is Killing Us OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The problem, of course, is our health care system – although 'system' seems like a flattering word for this greed-driven, anarchic three-ring circus ... Where does all the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Deficit Debate’s Sick Secret Is Killing Us OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The problem, of course, is our health care system – although 'system' seems like a flattering word for this greed-driven, anarchic three-ring circus ... Where does all the...
Our Deficit Debate's "Sick Secret" Is Killing Us ... Literally
Imagine a nation with a terrible problem - one its leaders refuse to discuss. The problem will needlessly drain trillions of dollars from its economy in the next ten years. Now imagine that this problem also robs that nation's citizens of life itself, draining years...
Red State Leadership
When I read David's post about the intransigence of the Confederate rump of the Republican Party, I thought of this tweet from the other night: Buzzy: @reptomprice told WMAL this morning that GOP needs "red state leadership." As @larryoconnor notes, that doesn't...
Call Senators Today And Say "Fix The Filibuster, Make Them Talk"
TODAY is a day of action demanding that the Senate fix the filibuster and make them talk. Pick up the phone right now and urge your Senator to support Senate Rules Reform. Call 1-866-937-5062 or text FIXTHESENATE to 69866.
Budget Bedlam: Common Sense in the Madhouse
Washington is careening off the fiscal cliff smack into the debt ceiling. These mind-numbing mixed metaphors are not the currency of a well-governed nation. Once more, Washington is fixated on what and how to cut. Once more, the media is clamoring for a deal, for...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: So Can We Focus On Jobs NOW? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Now that the idiotic “fiscal cliff’ is out of the way, maybe we can start to get around to doing something that will actually help We, the People, fix the economy and reduce the borrowing....
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: So Can We Focus On Jobs NOW? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Now that the idiotic “fiscal cliff’ is out of the way, maybe we can start to get around to doing something that will actually help We, the People, fix the economy and reduce the borrowing....
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: So Can We Focus On Jobs NOW? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Now that the idiotic “fiscal cliff’ is out of the way, maybe we can start to get around to doing something that will actually help We, the People, fix the economy and reduce the borrowing....
Why Obama Now Holds The Whip Hand
Progressives ranging from Paul Krugman, Noam Scheiber, Greg Sargent and OurFuture.org's own Robert Borosage are down on the latest tax deal. They feel President Obama caved on the threshold for higher tax rates and, in turn, set himself up another another bad deal in two months by failing to raise or nullify the debt ceiling.
