by Bill Scher | May 2, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton delivered a 90-minute defense of his economic record, which some are analyzing through the prism of Hillary Clinton's expected presidential campaign. But within that defense, Clinton admitted to a big mistake: the...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2014 | Blog
Republicans aren't for things. Instead they run from one hysterical anti-something scream to the next. They have shifted from the "noun-verb-911" of the Bush years to "Obama said you didn't build this" road and bridge, then to "Obamacare failed" and after Obamacare...
by Terrance Heath | May 2, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Here’s a basic rule of thumb for wingnut rhetoric. If right-wingers have returned to flogging that dead horse called Benghazi, they’re fresh out of ideas again. This week, wingnuts weren’t just beating a dead horse. They were almost making glue. Maybe they got the...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2014 | Blog
Senate Republicans filibustered the minimum wage increase. This means the bill doesn't even get a debate, never mind a vote. This is part of their strategy to hold back the economy and then campaign on the bad "Obama" economy. Meanwhile cities and states are helping...
by Robert Borosage | May 2, 2014 | Blog
The topline of the April BLS jobs report – a better than expected 288,000 jobs added, with the unemployment rate plummeting to 6.3% – will be celebrated, particularly in contrast to the collapse of growth in the first quarter (initially estimated at 0.1% but likely...
by Jeff Bryant | May 1, 2014 | Blog
To address the nation's struggling economy, the Obama administration has announced a bold proposal to require states to provide more useful data about the career success of business and financial executives who graduate from the nation's colleges and universities with...
