by Dave Johnson | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog
I was in DC a few weeks ago, and stopped by the AFL-CIO building. While I was there I bought a hat with AFL-CIO on it. Inside the hat is a label, "Union Made in the USA." I was looking at this yesterday and thinking about how unions wouldn't buy cheap hats made in...
by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog
The ideologically conflicted American people is starkly depicted in the latest NYT/CBS poll. While conservatives can cling to the 56% of the public that says they want "smaller government providing fewer services" in theory, liberals can point to reluctance to put...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor today reiterated the claim that "uncertainty" created by the work Democratic congressional leaders are doing to clean up the mess left by conservative economic policies is responsible for the anemic state of the economic recovery and...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Let's have a frank talk about an uncomfortable subject: Progressives need to raise campaign money in order to get elected and stay in office. Sometimes that money has to come from places that progressives aren't comfortable talking about. This gritty reality has too...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Sens. Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley announced a bipartisan agreement for a "jobs" bill, tracking the earlier draft versions which Sen. Jon Kyl accurately described as not really a jobs bill but an exercise in "extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog
Never underestimate Sarah Palin. She did a better job articulating anti-banker sentiment at last week's Tea Party Convention than Obama's done. Its followers don't realize it, but the Tea Party movement is really a Trojan Horse filled with bankers and lobbyists. It's...
