by Terrance Heath | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
Yesterday, I posted that progressive leaders in Congress are saying "No Deal" to "fiscal cliff' deals that cut Social Security benefits while cutting the wealthy yet another break on taxes. Today, that list is growing, as more progressive join what's beginning to look...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: What About The...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 19, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
Progressives in Congress aren't falling for the trick that Washington is using to cut Social Security in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. Instead they are raising their voices against the insanity of Democrats committing political suicide by: destroying their...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 18, 2012 | Blog
For decades, the conservative agenda rested upon a three-legged stool of "culture war" issues: "God, guns, and gays." I've covered in previous posts how the outcome of the 2012 election pretty much knocked out two legs of that ideological three legged stool. GOP...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog
As Washington approaches a "fiscal cliff" of its own making, our elected officials appear to be forgetting some important things. President Obama seems to have forgotten the mandate he won in November, not a mandate just to increase taxes on the wealthy (something...