Progressive Breakfast: Barack Hoover Obama? By Bill Scher January 26, 2010 – 8:52am ET 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. Obama Compared To Hoover After Announcing Spending Freeze [...]
Archive for January, 2010
26 Jan
Democracy Subverted
thinkprogress.org January 25, 2010 by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald CONGRESS Democracy Subverted While it is now taken for granted than any major piece of legislation needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, this has not always been the case. Use of the filibuster — the minority’s [...]
24 Jan
GOP hopeful: People on public assistance like ‘stray animals’
By Leroy Chapman Jr. | The State South Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said Saturday he could have chosen his words more carefully when he compared people who take public assistance to stray animals Friday. But Bauer, in an interview with The State Saturday, said a furor over his comments doesn’t change this fact: [...]
24 Jan
No Obama Obituaries, Please
Joe Conason | Saturday 23 January 2010 by: Joe Conason, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Having taken the oath of office just one year ago, Barack Obama is a flashing meteor that sputtered out too soon — or so the national media narrative tells us. According to this story line, [...]
24 Jan
The Caucus The Politics and Government Blog of The Times January 24, 2010, 9:56 AM Sunday Word: Economy Week By JANIE LORBER Congress and the White House are gearing up for an economy-focused week. The Senate has two major votes scheduled — one on whether to create a new commission to plan a way to [...]
24 Jan
The Human Face of Haitian Tragedy
Katie Coerce Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News Posted: January 17, 2010 07:45 PM CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric reflects on the three days she spent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti immediately following the earthquake there. A few drops of water on acres and acres of parched land – that’s how I woke [...]
24 Jan
Pass the Senate Bill, Please
Paul Begala CNN political commentator Posted: January 24, 2010 02:44 PM In an op-ed several months ago, I advised my fellow progressive Democrats to support health care reform even if it fails to include some of their cherished goals. Now I’m begging. I understand and share the frustrations of progressives. They compromised before the debate [...]
24 Jan
November doesn’t need to be a nightmare for Democrats
By David Plouffe Sunday, January 24, 2010 – Washington Post The Democratic Party got a resounding wake-up call from the voters of Massachusetts on Tuesday. But it’s long been clear that 2010 would be a challenging election year for our party. With few exceptions, the first off-year election in a new president’s term has led [...]
24 Jan
Health-care experts say Obama can get some reform himself
By David Ignatius Sunday, January 24, 2010 It’s the truism of the week: To surmount his political troubles, President Obama needs to show leadership — especially on his signature issue of health-care reform. But how can he do that with a Congress that will be even more gridlocked after last Tuesday’s election shocker in Massachusetts [...]
23 Jan
Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank: How America’s Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess
By Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank, Bill Moyers Journal. Posted January 19, 2010. Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown. Editor’s note: In the following interview Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas” [...]
22 Jan
Obama Adopts Volcker’s Solution: If Banks Want Govt. Guarantees, They Have to Close Their Casino Operations
By Zach Carter, AlterNet. Posted January 21, 2010. Obama’s endorsement of Volcker’s plan is truly an extraordinary step forward for economic policy, but there’s a long way to go. The news that President Barack Obama is finally listening to Paul Volcker is welcome, but the specifics of Obama’s big bank crackdown are not as positive [...]
22 Jan
9 Things the Dems Should Do to Get Their House in Order
By Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. Posted January 21, 2010. The first thing Dems need to do is stop feeling sorry for themselves. They still control the presidency and have large majorities in the Congress. The first thing Democrats need to do is stop feeling sorry for themselves and stop issuing idiotic statements like their [...]
