by Bill Scher | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog
Many armchair pundits have taken whacks at the President and his communications team for having "lost control of the message behind his drive for health care." This critique is based on the faulty logic that the President can control everything. It ignores the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog
China is holding down the value of its currency, which means goods made there cost less everywhere else. This undercuts American companies that make things, so they close factories here and buy from there. This costs us jobs, forces down our wages and savings rate,...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog
(Or "CPAC: Sideshow and Snake Oil, Pt. 2") The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the "stage" of conservative media — that...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 14, 2010 | Blog
Republicans in Congress have introduced a breathtaking new budget plan that would essentially put America's plutocracy on steroids. The Republican Party, critics like to quip, has become the “party of no.” That tag no longer works. The GOP has now become,...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 13, 2010 | Blog
There's a lot of buzz in health care circles about an editorial in today's Washington Post entitled "If Democrats ignore health-care polls, midterms will be costly." That could be dangerous: the author's conclusions are contradicted, not supported, by the available...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
A Center for American Progress report this week chronicles just how obstructionist conservatives in the Senate continue to be as they use the filibuster to block reform efforts in the Senate. Scott Lilly elaborates on a trend that we began chronicling more than two...
