by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
9.4% Unemployment rate ticks down to 9.4%. AP: "Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. It was a better than expected showing that offered a strong signal that the...
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
In my personal experience, nothing makes a conservative madder than observing that the history of conservatism is sullied with racism. You'll immediately get an earful about Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd and his past with the KKK, as if the fact that many 60s-era...
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
TPMDC picked up a Napa Valley Register report and separate editorial on another right-wing disrupting the town hall featuring Blue Dog Dem Rep. Mike Thompson. The initial article reported: Shouts of “This is America!” and “What’s wrong with profit?” emerged from a...
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bipartisan Deal Would Save Money By Covering Fewer People Preliminary Baucus caucus deal has no public option and covers less people than current bills. W....
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2009 | Blog
Marc Ambinder is spending a lot of blogging energy defending his peeps at CBS for this news report giving the right-wing Birther mob credit for representing concerns about health care reform from the electoral middle. He writes: A majority of the public supports...
