by Bill Scher | Mar 4, 2010 | Blog
The President and congressional leaders have repeatedly acceded to the demands of the right-leaning faction of the Democratic Party on health care. Typically, when congresspeople get what they want in a bill, they proceed to vote for that bill. Yet not one Democratic...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single-handedly delayed unemployment benefits for 400,000 desperate Americans and forced an unnecessary furlough of another 2,000, should be a figure regarded with wonderment. The awesome power he held in his hands!...
by Bill Scher | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
After President Obama finished his speech calling for an up-or-down vote on health care reform, a caller to C-Span spouted the usual right-wing complaint, "Why do we have to rush this?" I could not help but chuckle. How can anyone with a straight face still complain...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Americans who travel out of the country will tell you about how the US is so visibly falling further and further behind the rest of the world. This hurts our ability to compete economically. The cause of the problem was tax cuts. The solution is certainly not more tax...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
Today's Heritage Foundation "Morning Bell," its daily conservative talking-points memo, contains says this blunt statement about the process that the Obama administration wants to use to pass a health care reform bill through Congress: "Never has reconciliation been...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Vice President Joe Biden defended the administration in a speech to America's labor leaders, gathered at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meetings in Orlando, Florida this week. Mentioning individual union presidents by name -- including some not in the room --he...
