by Dave Johnson | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. There aren't enough jobs, and we're being told this is our fault because we wanted pensions and good wages and vacations and...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog
Republican House leader John Boehner laid out the Republcan world view in an interview with a friendly reporter at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Boehner defended the big banks from reform, arguing that the finanical reform bill was like "killing an ant with a nuclear...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room calls out the "Climate Peacocks" in Congress who are ostentatiously shaking their tailfeathers in mock outrage over the very idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might actually act as agents of environmental protection: Earlier...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
After much hype and buildup, the AmericaSpeaks "national town meeting" on cutting the deficit was held on Saturday. I watched the proceedings via webcast for much of the morning, knowing that Digby was liveblogging it and David Dayen was on the scene here in Southern...
by Bill Scher | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
10 years ago, Sen. Robert Byrd blocked a move to end the use of coal at the Capitol Hill Power Plant. Just this month, he voted in support of the EPA"s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The evolution in his environmental views is another example of Sen. Byrd's...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
I was on Hannah-Beth Jackson's radio show this Saturday discussing two topics: Social Security and the "AmericaSpeaks" events, and the financial reform bill. Here's Part I of the discussion, on Social Security. I'll get the financial reform piece up...
