YES! Magazine / By Fran Korten COMMENTS: 17 It’s not too late to limit or reverse the impact of the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Here’s how. January 28, 2010 | The recent Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in politics just may be the straw that breaks the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
29 Jan
Dear President Obama
Assessment of Your Performance at the End of Year One: “Change you can believe in!” Sound familiar Mr. President? During your campaign you made a large number of significant promises to the American people who subsequently elected you. Many of us who did support and vote for you did so, at least in part, because [...]
29 Jan
Senate Republicans seem to have one answer for Democrats: No
washingtonpost.com By Dana Milbank Friday, January 29, 2010 In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama asked lawmakers to “work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics.” On Thursday, Republicans sent their answer. The Senate took a vote on extending the federal debt ceiling — without which the [...]
29 Jan
Broad Brush Issues
Progressive Breakfast: The Incredibly Shrinking Senate Jobs Bill By Bill Scher January 29, 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 security. Senate Jobs Bill May Be Less Than Half [...]
29 Jan
In State of the Union address, President Obama put himself on the outside looking in
By Eugene Robinson Friday, January 29, 2010 President Obama’s State of the Union address didn’t signal a political shift to the left or the right. It sounded more like a shrewd attempt to move from the inside to the outside — to position himself alongside disaffected voters, peering through the windows of the den of [...]
29 Jan
Some truths about that defici
By Scot Lehigh January 29, 2010 DEFICIT HAWKS of the world, rejoice! Long ignored, the federal budget deficit has finally arrived as an issue. President Barack Obama just took a small step forward, announcing a limited federal spending freeze, to commence in 2011, plus a commission to recommend remedies. The GOP, meanwhile, has suddenly remembered [...]
29 Jan
One Giant Leap for Corporatekind
One Giant Leap for Corporatekind The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission will open the floodgates for corporate interest, but somehow the media didn’t notice.
28 Jan
Broad Brush Issues
Campaign for America’s Future Jobs Center Stage in SOTU President Obama calls on Senate to immediately pass jobs bill and tackle longer-term jobs strategy: “… take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need … a new small business [...]
28 Jan
In rejecting a fiscal commission, senators betray the nation
WashingtonPost.com By David S. Broder Thursday, January 28, 2010 On the very day this week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that the succession of previously unimaginable trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits could inflict ruin on the United States, the Senate faced a moment of truth. For the first time, a truly bipartisan proposal aimed at averting [...]
28 Jan
Obama shows he’s a conciliator–and also willing to fight
President Obama takes the podium last night. (Toni L. Sandys/the Washington Post) WashingtonPost.com By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, January 28, 2010 There was an unexpected poignancy to the moment . Barack Obama, who once strode across the political landscape as a master of the persuasive arts, found himself needing to prove that mastery all over [...]
27 Jan
The Hardest Call
I think that this is a remarkably well thought out evaluation to the health care issue. As liberal as I am, I have been very disappointed in what has been proposed–too many compromises. I am pretty much in agreement with his conclusions. No matter what your political persuasion–it is worth reading. December 18, 2009 [...]
26 Jan
Deficit Peacocks
thinkprogress.org ECONOMY Deficit Peacocks As the Obama administration and Congress deal with the economic problems facing the country — including double-digit unemployment, a housing crisis, credit shortage, and stagnating wages — one issue that has captured the headlines in recent days is that of the national debt. Publicly held debt currently stands at nearly $7.8 [...]
