by Terrance Heath | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
"I want what I want when I want it." Those are Eric Cantor's words. No, they're not words he said recently, but words he chose years ago, for his high school yearbook quote. And while it may seem unfair to bring them up now (After all, how many of us said or...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives say greed is a good thing. But the lessons of history, religion, philosophy, psychology and even biology say it is not. I am visiting England this week. Today I'm in York, and I toured the York Minstrel which is a huge 13th-century cathedral. Down in...
by Eric Hunt | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
With Isaiah J. Poole When the Speak Out for Good Jobs Now Tour rolls into Miami on Saturday, it will be in a state where bad economic conditions are being made more harsh by a series of conservative policy actions. “Florida workers have fared worse than the nation as...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
House Speaker John Boehner and his Tea Party comrades regularly assail “job-killing regulations that are strangling employers all over the country.” Lurid, graphic, and no doubt focus group and message dial tested, these very words – job-killing regulations strangling...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives say they are prepared to blow up the economy by not lifting the debt limit if that is what it takes to avoid raising taxes on the rich – even to avoid closing loopholes that have hedge fund billionaires paying a lower tax rate than their chauffeurs. Tax...
