by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
The new conservative 'Mount Vernon Statement' unveiled last week claims that right-wingers are upholding what the Generation of 1776 held dear. But those right-wingers, history shows, are conveniently overlooking what the Founders truly feared. The pillars of American...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
The Sideshow Glenn Beck, in a sense, is right. CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is not and could never be a "big tent." Neither is the brand of conservatism it tries so hard to sell. The "big tent," to borrow his circus analogy is usually reserved...
by Bill Scher | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
The White House's health care proposal takes the Senate path and excludes a public health insurance option. The apparent logic, as indicated by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, was that a public option couldn't get even 50 Senate votes today. This may be...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
In last week’s post, Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It, I wrote about Whirlpool closing a factory in Evansville, Indiana. In summary, • Whirlpool closes a plant in Evansville • Taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. • All the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
Since the nation's capital is enamored of bipartisanship in all its forms, it's surprising that today's letter from five former Treasury Secretaries - both Democratic and Republican - isn't front page news. The secretaries strongly endorsed the so-called "Volcker...
by Mary Bottari | Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
Even before a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision blew the lid off corporate campaign spending, it was clear that the big banks would be key players in the 2010 election cycle. Unemployment will remain high and so will resentment against the banks, a volatile...
