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On Bearing Grudges

President Barack Obama doesn't begrudge Wall Street's banksters their bonuses. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is "an extraordinary amount of money" for Main Street, "there are some baseball...

Progressive Breakfast - 2/16/2010

On Today's Menu: Senator Bayh Says Goodbye President Obama's Approval Up Job and Budgets Debt and China GOP Meets Tea Party Bye, Bayh. A Political Career Gone Bayh: Politico's Glenn Thrush & Jonathan Martin remember another young Democrat who gave a convention keynote...

How To Read Republican Ransom Notes

What kind of people respond to an invitation with a list of demands? John Boehner and Eric Cantor have responded to Barack Obama's invitation to sit down and talk health-care reform. They answered in the form of a ransom note. Here are their demands: 1) "Assuming the...

Not As They Do: Conservatives and the Deficit, Pt. 2

Sarah Palin's keynote speech was quite a hit at this weekend's Tea Party convention. She even took a shot at pinning responsibility for the deficit on the Obama administration. "The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb...

Colorado Springs: Conservatism's Shining City

If you've ever wondered where conservative economic policies like permanent tax cuts for the wealthy, slashed social services and government spending are supposed to lead us, look no further than Colorado Springs. David Sirota's description of what's happening to that...

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