by Robert Borosage | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
Bill Daley is an experienced corporate lobbyist, a skilled strategist, and a smart operator. That’s presumably why he was hired. But it is bizarre to say that “few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to the job,” as the president did. Or to...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Wall Street is widely despised by an American public that lives with the consequences of bank behavior every day. The President and the party were once widely trusted by the public to rein in the banks and save the economy, but that reputation's been tarnished by the...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 5, 2011 | Blog
Robin Hood, the guy who robbed the rich and gave to the poor, wore a short frock and tights. From the get-go, the guy serving the disadvantaged while sporting gay attire would fail the entrance exam required to become a card-carrying Republican. The GOP is, after all,...
by Bill Scher | Jan 4, 2011 | Blog
The conservative response to the Congressional Budget Office analysis that health care reform will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next two decades is simply to call the nonpartisan analysts liars. For some reason, when the CBO was harshly criticizing...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Over the weekend Daily Kos ran a front-page story, America needs an industrial policy, making the point that Germany is doing well because their government understands that a national policy of promoting manufacturing drives the economy and jobs. There is a simple...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's ability to regain its footing in the global economy. To keep conservatives from enacting...