by Bill Scher | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Progressives Fire Warning Shot Against Social Security Cuts OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal [including] the...
by Bill Scher | Jan 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Did Obama Pivot On Education? OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "It was hard for a progressive not to get a chocolate high from President Obama’s inauguration speech ... But hardly anyone in the education community had anything notable to say about it...
by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: No More Hostage Taking OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Republicans in Congress are intent on creating yet another manufactured budget crisis. This one is timed to come after bruising negotiations over the next weeks to avoid the deep, across the...
by Bill Scher | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog
The strong reaction to President Obama's extended remarks on the climate suggests that he wasn't doing anything on the matter and suddenly feels liberated to do so. Not so. As I have discussed twice previously, after the failure of the Congress to pass a carbon cap in...
by Bill Scher | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: A Million on the Mall OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Before the election reporters and pundits were saying that not so many people would turn out this time, that it would be close at best. But on election day it turned out that it wasn’t even close....
