by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
As a mark-up session for the House Republican budget for fiscal 2013 was taking place in the House Budget Committee hearing room, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus were outside presenting the outlines of their alternative, designed to put jobs and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
There's another chapter to add to the narrative my colleague Dave Johnson sketched out some weeks ago about how the Reagan revolution has come home to roost, based on sobering statistics uncovered this morning by David Cay Johnston at Tax.com about how The Great...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog
A report today in The Huffington Post that the AARP is organizing a "salon" dominated by supporters of cuts to Social Security benefits—as part of a larger "listening tour"—has advocates for preserving Social Security hopping mad. Apparently, the AARP has not learned...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog
The very name of a Washington conservative conference this weekend is the height of subterfuge. It's called the "Defending the American Dream" conference, which is not about defending the actual American dreams of most Americans (the focus of our own "Take Back the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
The fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and to undo its effects on our democracy is now being ratcheted up as a spectrum of progressive organizations are cooperating on multiple fronts. The groups, which include the Campaign for America's...
