by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Populist Majority
With Republicans unable to agree on a hostage strategy, Speaker John Boehner will hold an open vote on a "clean" debt-ceiling increase. This means that Democrats and a few moderately sane Republicans will formalize what everyone has known all along: It is illegitimate...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 5, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge, The New Populism
One day after President Barack Obama called for moving forward on trade authority in his State of the Union address, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared, “I am against fast track,” and said he had no intention of bringing it to a vote in the Senate....
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2014 | Populist Majority
Of all the myths that circulate in Washington, perhaps none is more prevalent or intractable than the one that says that the United States is a “moderate” nation – and that the “center” of public opinion lies somewhere between the views of conservative Democrats and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Populist Majority, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Two big developments are following quickly behind President Obama's soft-pedaling in his State of the Union address of his administration's attempt to fast-track a seriously damaging Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty through Congress. The most consequential action...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Economy, Populist Majority, State of the Union
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday before President Obama's State of the Union address, and a Democracy Corps focus group polled during the speech, indicate that President Obama wins, and Democrats in Congress will win, with a progressive...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 21, 2014 | Progressive Vision, The New Populism
Is the “new populism” hailed by the mainstream press for real? The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday reminds us how far we are from a vibrant people’s movement that can force change in Washington. But the difficulty that the White House has had in...
