by Robert Borosage | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Seldom have we witnessed a more dishonest speech in prime time than that delivered by House Speaker John Boehner last night on the debt ceiling crisis. “The sad truth,” he declared, “ is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago, and he wants a blank...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; .... The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming "It is clear we must enter an era of austerity; to reduce the deficit through shared sacrifice,"...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Thousands of citizens fanned out to congressional offices across the country this afternoon to tell their members of Congress to not pay the ransom being demanded by congressional conservatives—deep cuts in economic security programs for seniors, the sick and the...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
It turns out President Obama was more right than he knew when, back in April, he spoke of the GOP's vision of a "shrunken America." There's just one more thing about which, in his speech last night, John Boehner was more wrong than he knew or probably cared to know....
by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Does free trade create jobs? This is the wrong question. Of course new trade agreements create jobs. The right question is do they create more jobs than they kill, and are those new jobs good-paying jobs? Will the agreements be used to break unions and pressure US...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Washington is engaged in one more Chicken Little game of chicken. "The sky is falling" they cry, whipping up the fear and panic, demanding we solve the latest "crisis" by cutting taxes for the rich, cutting the things We, the People do for each other, and handing over...
