by Terrance Heath | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
A word of advice to the folks at the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform: it may be time to "slow your roll" as, we used to say where I come from. Based on their own admissions, and Alan Simpson's bedraggled look at the commission's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
Here's the plain truth about what's at stake in the unemployment insurance extension fight that is about to take place when Congress returns for its lame-duck session next week: If congressional Republicans succeed in blocking an extension of extended unemployment...
by Josh Rosenblum | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
The Latest Battle to Take Social Security from the Middle Class, People of Color, and People with Disabilities Earlier today I attended a press conference in an elaborate 8th floor room overlooking the U.S. Capitol at the Newseum for an unveiling of billionaire Pete...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them. CAF has set up a page for the Tea Party Getting Played series. This is the latest in the series. The Tea Party candidates vowed they would be different, would...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
The Chicken Little campaign orchestrated by billionaire Peter G. Peterson to rally public support behind cutting Social Security was kicked up a notch on Tuesday with the launch of the $20 million "Owe No" campaign. With references to "a growing crisis" that will...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The conservative wing of the Democratic Party just drove it over a cliff, but you'd never know if from reading Matt Bai's latest New York Times piece. It's the latest in a series of Bai paeans to that odd mix of ideologies and opportunism that Washington types persist...
