by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
Jon Stewart presumably came to DC to rally the sane against Glenn Beck's minions and 9/11 Truthers. But instead of amplifying that message in The Daily Show interview with President Obama yesterday, Stewart opted to focus on the most weak and superficial criticisms of...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: We've Foreclosed...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
What was that again about a "center-right" nation? A new CNN poll finds only one-third of Americans backs the congressional Republican position for extending the Bush tax breaks to those earning more than $250,000 a year. Nearly half of American share President...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The DC/Rest-Of-Us Divide OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: " There is a 'deficit commission' but no jobs commission. There are millions of people needing jobs and millions of jobs that need doing, but Washington won't 'spend,' even on badly-needed...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
Conservative austerity activists have long sought to whip up deficit hysteria and manipulate Washington into gutting Social Security and Medicare and stifling public investments. But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a progressive member of the White House deficit commission, has...