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...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
Pat Buchanan has a column today on manufacturing, The Disemboweling of America, that hits the nail on the head. In fact, if I fairly excerpt enough of the column and send you over to read it, my work here is done. For today. Buchanan begins by outlining just how much...
by Bill Scher | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
The Washington Post today published an op-ed by Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, who defined themselves as "pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton" who are heroically telling the current President that the polls say
by Robert Borosage | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
______________________ With word that Six Senators were expressing opposition to putting direct lending in the budget bill reconciliation -- which only requires sixty votes to pass the Senate -- Rep George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and...
