by Robert Borosage | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog
According to reports, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to announce today that his appointees to the super committee Gang of 12 will be Sens. John Kerry, Patty Murray and Max Baucus. Reid apparently has chosen not to appoint Sens. Bernie Sanders or Sherrod Brown...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog
Today on "Democracy Now!", Robert Borosage discussed the "dangerously wrongheaded" path the Super Committee appears to be taking. Video is above and transcript is below. AMY GOODMAN: Talk about this "super committee," what its powers are, first. ROBERT BOROSAGE: Well,...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 10, 2011 | Blog
The establishment campaign to use the economic crisis to cut Social Security and Medicare continues to escalate. Helene Cooper in New York Times offers up a new theme: If the president is courageous and puts country before campaign, he'll "administer the disagreeable...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2011 | Blog
Government is the great teacher of its people, by what it does and by what its leaders say. And no one has a larger pulpit than the President, as Barack Obama showed yesterday, when he summoned the media to broadcast comments as markets tanked across the world. The...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog
Global economic turmoil is getting worse. Europe’s financial crisis now imperils Spain and Italy. The folly of premature austerity savages economies in Great Britain, Europe and, increasingly, the United States. China and the emerging economies are slowing down. This...
