by Leo Gerard | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
Leo W. Gerard: Your chapter in the new book, “Benchmarking the Advantages Foreign Nationals Provide their Manufacturers,” describes in devastating detail how China in particular, but also other major U.S. trading partners, violate international rules. The abuses you...
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
TPMDC picked up a Napa Valley Register report and separate editorial on another right-wing disrupting the town hall featuring Blue Dog Dem Rep. Mike Thompson. The initial article reported: Shouts of “This is America!” and “What’s wrong with profit?” emerged from a...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
When things are going wrong it is often good practice to go back and review the basics, and start again. In baseball you go back to batting and fielding practice. To master a musical instrument you practice your scales every day. Things have gone wrong with our...
by Sara Robinson | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 5, 2009 | Blog
It is time to go all in to support comprehensive health care reform. The stakes have gotten prohibitive. Republicans have essentially bet the House on it. Obama, for all intents and purposes, has wagered the White House agenda. The insurance and drug companies are...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2009 | Blog
Marc Ambinder is spending a lot of blogging energy defending his peeps at CBS for this news report giving the right-wing Birther mob credit for representing concerns about health care reform from the electoral middle. He writes: A majority of the public supports...