by Dave Johnson | May 25, 2011 | Blog
In 2010 Republicans and corporate front groups ran ad after ad after ad after ad claiming that Democrats had "Cut 500 billion from Medicare." Those ads brought them the senior vote, and they took the House. Confident in their ability to "create their own reality" they...
by Terrance Heath | May 25, 2011 | Blog
Remember back in 2004, when Dubya won re-election and liberals started threatening to move to Canada? Well, maybe I should have considered it. Because according to OECD's Better Life Index, Canada is where I belong. But, I'm still not moving to Canada. Hows Life?...
by Bill Scher | May 25, 2011 | Blog
Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury Elizabeth Warren is now testifying to a House Oversight subcommittee, pitting America's best middle-class champion against conservative defenders of unregulated banks who don't want her to...
by Richard Eskow | May 25, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
A group of Democratic representatives has joined consumer groups- along with prominent figures like Dr. Phil (yes, that Dr. Phil) - in calling on the President to make a "recess appointment" of Elizabeth Warren. That will allow her to get to work running the new...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 25, 2011 | Blog
When Elizabeth Warren, the White House adviser who is setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went to speak before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning, one of the things she compared the visit to was the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den....
