by Bill Scher | Mar 6, 2009 | Blog
The Washington Post had an interesting lead sentence for its coverage of the White House health care summit: "...President Obama yesterday reiterated his pledge to enact comprehensive legislation this year, an ambitious undertaking many say is further complicated by...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog
They're at it again. Conservatives, in concert with the health insurance industry, are desperately reaching for relevance on health care. But what they call CPR is really DNR — a "do not resuscitate" order for a health care system in critical condition. "Conservatives...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog
Leo W. Gerard: Economist James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, recently told Deborah Solomon of the New York Times that you are “the person with the most serious claim” for predicting the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog
It ain't easy. No use jokin'. Everything's broken."-Bob Dylan We can't go back to the old economy. That economy -- marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits -- didn't work very well for...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 3, 2009 | Blog
Far be it from me to criticize anyone in government. (Yeah. Right.) But there's something that's been on my mind ever since people started piling on the auto industry, and this comment from Rahm Emmanuel brought it back to mind. The president's chief of staff...
by Bill Scher | Mar 3, 2009 | Blog
The SEIU has a brilliant new video skewering corporate executives and lobbyists pathetically trying to stoke panic around the Employee Free Choice Act, which will simply give employees the power to decide how to approach the question of unionization: be it ballot...
