by Dave Johnson | Jun 17, 2010 | Blog
Before you read on, yes this is for real. Yes, Democrats are joining with Republicans to fight help for the long-term unemployed. Yes, members of Congress are blaming the unemployed, calling them names, and proposing that the unemployed be publicly humiliated. And...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Oh, the irony. As Defense Secretary Robert Gates was on Capitol Hill today telling a Senate appropriations subcommittee that Congress has to approve a $33 billion supplemental war funding request by July 4 or else "we begin to have to do stupid things," the Senate did...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
It was a fight to the finish between two heavyweight contenders. In this corner, representing the big Wall Street interests and wearing green trunks the color of money, Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts. And in this corner, representing common sense and the...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
The headline of my local paper today is Obama: Act on clean energy. (But a different headline online - do they do that just to mess up bloggers?) In the speech the President paid homage to President Carter's efforts to change America's energy policies, saying, For...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
In his column concerning last month's jobs number, George Will does a nearly "Noonan-eque" job of spreading disorientation and doubt about what government should do— if anything — about chronic unemployment, delivering a simple-but-subtle...
by Bill Scher | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
As you can see in today's Progressive Breakfast, interpretations of the President's speech ranged widely. Carbon cap is dead. Or alive. Serious push for other clean energy standards and investments. Or desire to take anything they can get. Pragmatic. Or cop-out. The...
