Will Republicans Show Up? By Bill Scher February 9, 2010 – 8:54am 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. Republicans Put Conditions On Attending Health Care Summit Republican [...]
Archive for February 9th, 2010
9 Feb
Sarah Palin Has to Use Cheat Sheet to Remember GOP Priorities
Posted by AlterNet Staff at 12:31 pm February 8, 2010 Sometimes, it’s hard to remember what you truly stand for. Hence Sarah Palin’s cheat sheet, classily scribbled on her hand, during the QA session of the Tea Party Convention in Nashville. From the Huffington Post: Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a [...]
9 Feb
Our Democracy No Longer Works and the Problem Is Congress
The Nation / By Lawrence Lessig At the center of our government lies a bankrupt institution: Congress. The US Congress has become the Fundraising Congress. February 9, 2010 | We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as [...]
9 Feb
America Is Not Yet Lost
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 7, 2010 We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than [...]
9 Feb
In Tea Party Address, Palin Stokes the Anti-Rights Fire
February 8, 2010 For OpEdNews: Mary Shaw – Writer On February 6th, Sarah Palin gave the keynote address at a tea party convention in Nashville. As expected, I disagreed with just about everything Palin said. However, there was one part of her speech in particular that really got my blood boiling: She propagated the lie [...]
