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The GOPs Pyrrhic Victory Why It Wont Work Pt 4 of 4

President Obama is right. The Democrats got a "shellacking" in the midterm election. But not from the people who voted. And in a sense, the pundits and prognosticators are maybe half right. The president and his part were sent a message in this election. But...

Budget Choice Govern Or Gut

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Governing for We, the People, or gutting for the benefit of the rich? This budget fight is about a stark choice: jobs and growth for We, the...

Republicans Are CUTTING Jobs Programs

The country has been waiting for the promised action on jobs and unemployment since the new Congress came in. Nothing yet. We've had the show-vote on health care, we've had abortion, we've had silly conservative fluff bill after sily conservative fluff bill, but...

Same Old Same Old Destructive Economy

Will DC wake up and smell the real economy? In DC and Wall Street the economy is just fine. In fact it couldn't be better. Corporate profits and the stock market, after all, are way up -- the Fed has worked it's bubble-pumping magic yet again! And if you are in that...

President Antes Up 15M New Jobs GOP Folds

Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » There's a risk that the budget battle descends into a race to the bottom to see which party can cut the most. But that is not an inevitability....

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