by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 16, 2013 | Conservatism, Shutdown
Tea Party Republican extremism has already taken a bite of as much as $31 billion out of the economy since October 1, according to Wall Street analysts. And the price tag is about to get much higher now that the recalcitrants in the House of Representatives have...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 9, 2013 | Blog
President Obama today formally made a right and bold decision to appoint Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve. The nomination is groundbreaking in that it puts a woman in charge of monetary policy for the first time in the Fed's history. But, more...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 8, 2013 | Conservatism, Shutdown
President Obama talked to the news media for over an hour today, but all you really needed to hear was summed up in two words: Just vote. The president once again challenged House Speaker John Boehner to allow a vote on a continuing resolution that would allow the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 8, 2013 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Important to understanding why the federal government has been shut down by a group of unyielding, extremist congressional conservatives is to understand the voters who elected them. That was the goal of a series of focus groups conducted this summer by Democracy...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 7, 2013 | Retirement Security
David Sirota, the author of the Institute for America's Future report on "The Plot Against Pensions" that detailed the right-wing collaboration to dismantle public pension programs around the country, is now reporting in Salon that "the Enron billionaire whose former...
