by Terrance Heath | Nov 19, 2010 | Blog
Drop Dead. That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we've faced in a generation. When the Wall Street crisis loomed and the bailout was being debated: let the market fail, and risk...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
We expected to see an all-out assault on Social Security and progressive taxation in November, and we expected it to come under the banner of "deficit reduction." That was always the plan: Wait until after the election, when a lame-duck Congress could pass the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
When the House of Representatives held its unsuccessful vote earlier today on a measure to continue emergency unemployment benefits that are set to expire at the end of the month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich, told Congressional...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
The next time a conservative politician goes to the microphone and says something to the effect that "the American people have spoken, and they've made it clear that they want us to rein in out-of-control entitlement spending and keep programs such as Social Security...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
After the President signed the health reform law, opponent GOP Sen. Scott Brown immediately promised to push for changes. In a March 30th Boston Globe oped, he wrote: "I am working on legislation that would allow states to opt out of this federal health care bill...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
Jon Stewart presumably came to DC to rally the sane against Glenn Beck's minions and 9/11 Truthers. But instead of amplifying that message in The Daily Show interview with President Obama yesterday, Stewart opted to focus on the most weak and superficial criticisms of...
