by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2008 | Blog
The health insurance industry is launching a public relations and lobbying campaign today that is designed to convince people that they are on the side of reform even as they support a status-quo solution suspiciously similar to one pushed by Sen. John McCain and...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 21, 2008 | Blog
It looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as the Sunday shows and their guests managed to avoid the watchdog's questions. Rarely has so much been said, in fact, while providing so few answers. Henry Paulson, on Face the Nation, mentioned "regulators"...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 21, 2008 | Blog
Netroots Nations participants have four clear priorities for the next president: ending the war in Iraq, addressing the global warming crisis, obtaining health care for all and clsing the growing gap between the rich and poor, according to a straw poll done by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 21, 2008 | Blog
It’s not just the country’s energy usage that has to urgently move from fossil fuels to new, sustainable energy sources, environmental and social justice activist Van Jones told Netroots Nation participants. The progressive movement itself, he said, has to go “from...
by Bill Scher | Jul 20, 2008 | Blog
At Netroots Nation, I talked with Melinda Gibson of the Health Care for America Now coalition, soon after she debuted a new (and hilarious) video taking on the insurance companies in advance of an expected battle between the public interest and special interest....
by Bill Scher | Jul 19, 2008 | Blog
Long-time Texas populist Jim Hightower shared a few minutes with me at Netroots Nation to talk about how blogging is changing the face of Texas politics, giving progressive populists a revitalized voice in the Lone Star State. He also discussed the degree of populism...
