by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In the wake of an anemic jobs report that his Republican challengers are laying at his feet, President Obama could rightly respond that if he could have signed into law a jobs plan along the lines of what the House Progressive Caucus has proposed for the past two...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been all bluster and no action on China's cheating on trade, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said today, and the proof is in a bill that would address China's cheating that is currently languishing in the House despite broad,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Republicans won't abandon the Obama's-gutting-welfare-reform lie, no matter how often it is discredited. Today Republicans took the lie to the House floor, in the form of a resolution that would block the implementation of a Health and Human Services memorandum that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: So Who Is It That Cares About The Deficit Anyway? Digby via Hullabaloo: "Your reading assignment is this great piece in the New York Review of Books by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson entitled 'What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us': … 'While the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: When It Comes to the DoJ and Wall Street, Don't Call It "Justice" OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "If a recent report is true, the Justice Department will need a new name – and some of us will have to step up and admit we were wrong. It was clear that...
