by Digby | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
This piece by Aaron Carroll explains in full detail why raising the Medicare age is daft (and cruel): What you’re seeing is life expectancy at age 65 broken out in to the top half of earners and the bottom half of earners, from 1977 to 2007. I got these data from a...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
Mitch McConnell, the minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has for six years wielded the filibuster as a weapon in his rebellion against a founding principle of the United States of America – self-governance by majority rule. McConnell’s revolt shows he believes...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
It's tempting to read these pieces by Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Chait and decide that, all things considered, liberals should at least consider raising the Medicare age to 67 as part of a budget compromise. They shouldn't. "This seems like a useful time for liberals...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog
This week six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be strategizing over how to shift leftward the center of gravity in the debate over taxes and federal deficits. It is not enough, they argue, that some Republicans are grudgingly accepting the end of...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Apparently, the "fiscal cliff" is no cliffhanger. Howard Kurtz writes that Americans are "tuning out" the "fiscal cliff" debates in Washington because "the players haven’t gotten serious," about making a deal. Maybe it's because we know a "made for TV drama" when we...
by Digby | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Today is a progressive "day of action" on the fiscal cliff negotiations with a bunch of organizations holding events around the country. Here's one from the AFL-CIO. You can click over to find the event near you: PROTECT OUR FUTURE IN THE COMING BUDGET SHOWDOWN After...
