by Richard Eskow | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
Almost everyone knows that to "pull a Kanye" means to steal the limelight when it rightfully belongs elsewhere. With Sen. Dodd's suggestion that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency be housed in the Federal Reserve, it looked as if Ben Bernanke had successfully...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
So Rush Limbaugh has threatened to move to Costa Rica if health care reform passes. As Brian Docksteader wrote, the irony of this is almost too rich to believe. Given Rush's well-known proclivities, you have to wonder: Why Costa Rica? If he's looking for beaches, palm...
by Bill Scher | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday I had the nerve to mention that the superwealthy opponents of the estate tax are deathly afraid that once the current law brings back the estate tax next year to a 55% tax rate and a $2M inheritance income threshold, Congress won't want to touch it because...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be dancing with the stars in his head Sunday when he said on CNN that "there is an argument to be made" that an extension unemployment benefits, such as the one that conservative Republican Sen. Jim Bunning...
by Alan Jenkins | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
President Obama and the First Lady recognized International Women’s Day earlier this week with a moving and sometimes funny ceremony in the East Room. The President said that “the story of America’s women, like the story of America itself, has had its peaks and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Two noted shills for the banking industry - Republican Lamar Alexander and Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal - just trotted out the "socialism" boogeyman, so here we go again: another lie, another con, another ripoff. "School loan socialism" is the new Death Panel....
