by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog
The ideologically conflicted American people is starkly depicted in the latest NYT/CBS poll. While conservatives can cling to the 56% of the public that says they want "smaller government providing fewer services" in theory, liberals can point to reluctance to put...
by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Baucus-Grassley Tiny Jobs Bill Scrapped For Reid Tiny Jobs Bill Reid dumps Baucus-Grassley deal as bloated. Bloomberg: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday he was dropping scores of provisions from a $85 billion compromise jobs plan ... Reid said...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Sens. Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley announced a bipartisan agreement for a "jobs" bill, tracking the earlier draft versions which Sen. Jon Kyl accurately described as not really a jobs bill but an exercise in "extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 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. Weak Job Growth Projected Without...
by Bill Scher | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The possibility exists for the Senate to pass a bipartisan jobs bill. It just won't do much to create jobs. The Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, typically a fountain of misinformation, gets this one right in Bloomberg: "Kyl ... said Democrats shouldn’t advertise the...
