Politics As Usual
Incredibly Obvious Things In Front Of Our Faces
Sep 9th
Campagne for America’s Future By Dave Johnson September 8, 2010 – 1:08pm ET Conservative economic policies just don’t work and it’s incredibly obvious right in front of our faces. Knowing that obvious things are right in front of our faces and knowing that conservatives really, really don’t want us to see those things, it’s instructive [...]
Fairy-Tale Social Security Policy
Sep 9th
Center for American Progress By Dave Johnson September 9, 2010 – 12:41pm ET Lots of kids believe in Santa Claus. This is because people repeat the fable to kids over and over, telling them that Santa Claus will deliver presents to them if they’re good. And then there’s the Boogeyman, the “amorphous embodiment of terror.” [...]
Social Security Cutters, Watch Out
Sep 4th
BY PROGRESSIVE BREAKFAST AUGUST 12, 2010 Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement sec Major Social Security Poll To Be Released Today Pollster Stan Greenberg, Campaign For America’s Future and [...]
Boehner’s Half-Baked Economic Plan
Sep 1st
Ourfuture.Org Rep. John Boehner, the perpetually tanned House Minority leader, unveiled his plan to get the economy going today in a speech before the Cleveland City Club. Hold on to your job; if he becomes speaker, things will get worse. Understandably, Boehner said not a word about the policies that led to the Great Recession. [...]
What The Wikileak Means For The Afghanistan War
Jul 26th
Posted by MICHAEL CROWLEY Sunday, July 25, 2010 The Obama White House is furious this morning about the massive leak of military documents chronicling the unvarnished truth about the Afghanistan war. At the same time, though, there must be a certain sense of relief around the West Wing. When they first learned that the whistleblower [...]
Republicans starve the jobless, Democrats head for the hills
Jul 2nd
For OpEdNews: Brent Budowsky – Writer What did American workers ever do to Republicans to deserve this? First the Republicans oppose almost every major jobs program. Then the Republicans use the obstructionist filibuster to destroy any hope of passing jobs programs. Now the Republicans oppose and filibuster to death jobless benefits for American workers who [...]
Implementing Reform
Jun 9th
The Progress Report Implementing Reform Yesterday, President Obama sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, “launching a defense of his presidency’s biggest accomplishment” as the government prepared to release “the first batch of $250 checks to seniors who fall into Medicare’s prescription drug coverage gap, known as the ‘doughnut hole.’” “Each month, as [...]
The Prelude to Cheney’s Katrina
Jun 5th
Energy & Environment Unabashedly pro-oil policies and permissive regulatory environment created during the Bush administration set the stage for Cheney’s Katrina—the BP oil catastrophe. SOURCE: AP/Charles Dharapak By Joshua Dorner | June 4, 2010 Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s National Energy Policy Task Force concluded in May 2001 that “advanced, more energy efficient drilling and [...]
It would seem that she has out-Sarahd Sarah: God help us!
Jun 5th
Michele Bachmann is cool to mainstream media, and an increasingly hot property By Michael Leahy Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 4, 2010 Her tone was bright. “Thank you for giving me this opportunity,” she said. Michele Bachmann was on the phone. That alone was unusual. The Minnesota congresswoman generally does not speak to journalists [...]
Republicans Demand a Government Takeover and Bailout of the Oil Spill
Jun 3rd
June 1, 2010 By Bob Cesca from the Huffington Post. The words “government takeover” were originally injected into the discourse by Frank Luntz in the early stages of the health care reform process and have been repeated in the pejorative sense by Republicans across the board. Despite the fact that thousands of Americans die every [...]
