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Revisiting E.J. Dionne's Insight
In his brilliant, day-after summation of the "new majority" that made up Barack Obama's winning re-election vote, E. J. Dionne wrote this paragraph: "It cannot be forgotten that saving General Motors and Chrysler was the most 'interventionist' and 'intrusive' economic...
The Grand Betrayal
The following was originally published in The Nation. With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Waging Class War OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website –...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Waging Class War OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website –...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Waging Class War OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website –...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Waging Class War OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website –...
Waging Class War
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for...
Quick, Let's Make A Deal (Before The Deficit Goes Away On Its Own)
You know that deficit that's killing us? The one we're going to fix by "asking the rich to pay a little bit more" and cutting benefits for everyone else? What if the scam is even worse than we thought? Dean Baker spills some very inconvenient beans: [T]he big stick...
Paul Ryan: "Idea Man" Seeks Mandate
I'm no doctor, but defeated Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan may still be too "shell-shocked" to resume his role as the right's "idea man," if his latest addition to the growing list of GOP excuses for their stunning election day losses is any indication. Ryan say...
Election Did Not Change The Fiscal Cliff Outlook
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Last week’s election results did not change my opinion that we’re more likely to go over the fiscal cliff than to avoid it. Yes, I heard the less defiant tone Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, has used to talk about the...
