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These Zealots Can Find A Controversy Anywhere
In case you were wondering who are the biggest jackasses in the Senate, here's a handy list: Alexander (R-TN) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the Fiscal Cliff OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "This rehash of their old, rejected budget ideas is a formula for reducing the United States of America to a crumbling and poverty-haunted land where the...
GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the “Fiscal Cliff”
The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP "counter-offer" to the President's fiscal-cliff proposal isn't really an offer at all: It's a rehash of the tired and extremist right-wing economic warfare...
Before You "Fix The Debt," Unfix The Debt Debate
If any conference was in need of a disruption, it was the "Fix the Debt" roundtable held this morning in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown Washington. It took a group of protestors—among them a couple of African-American senior women, a male college...
There Is (Economic) Power in a Union: An Illustrated Guide
Who are the real "job creators"? People who have jobs - particularly those which pay well. Well-paid employees buy things, and that creates jobs for other people. And what creates those kinds of jobs? A healthy union movement.
Yesterday's Most Important Fiscal Cliff News Wasn't The GOP's "Proposal"
The offer made yesterday by House Republicans to the White House to avoid the fiscal cliff got all the headlines, but there were two reasons why it wasn't the most important fiscal cliff-related story of the day. First, it wasn't really a serious offer. In spite of...
It’s the Simpson-Bowles Personal Profit Tour: Making Money Off the U.S. Debt
The nation’s debt is a good deal for Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the leaders of the failed deficit commission. The two are profiting personally by urging fat cats and CEOs to support their two-year-old, already-interred deficit reduction plan. Simpson, a former...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Fix The Debt" Shows Its True, Billionaire-Funded, Anti-Tax Colors OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "'Fix the Debt' is allegedly an impromptu alliance of America’s largest CEOs. But it’ really the latest manifestation of a perenially right-wing,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Fix The Debt" Shows Its True, Billionaire-Funded, Anti-Tax Colors OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "'Fix the Debt' is allegedly an impromptu alliance of America’s largest CEOs. But it’ really the latest manifestation of a perenially right-wing,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: "Fix The Debt" Shows Its True, Billionaire-Funded, Anti-Tax Colors OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "'Fix the Debt' is allegedly an impromptu alliance of America’s largest CEOs. But it’ really the latest manifestation of a perenially right-wing,...
