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Progressive Breakfast

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Now We Know,...

Now We Know: Republicans Want To Raise Our Taxes

I wrote the following last month after the Senate voted on competing tax plans, but it also helps to put Mitt Romney's "47%" comments in further context. *** It is often stated as fact that Democrats always want to raise taxes and Republicans always want to lower...

Progressive Breakfast

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Bernanke's Wake Up...

DNC Day 3: Obama Stakes Claim For Renewed Mandate

President Obama's powerful acceptance speech gave no ground from his last acceptance speech. Despite the anti-government Tea Party spasm that occurred in between, Obama once again offered voters a vision of representative, responsive and responsible government that...

DNC Day 2: Stopping The Lies

Democrats have been increasingly frustrated that not even an army of fact-checkers has been able shame the Romney-Ryan campaign from stopping their lies about Medicare savings, welfare requirements, the Janesville GM plant and more. The shamelessness is unlikely to...

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