Sometimes my brain finds connections the strangest, seemingly most disparate stories among the many I read online every day. Two years ago, I wrote a rather longish blog post titled “Reclaiming ‘We’.” It was partly inspired by NY Times columnist Thom Friedman’s declaration that “There is no ‘we’ in American politics.” Earlier this week, Tom [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: GOP, Basta! Stop Sabotaging Our Economy. OurFuture.org’s Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey: “Look at what has happened since Tea Party-driven [...]
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The following was written by Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey. House Republicans have left no doubt: all they want is economic pain for political gain. Instead of accepting the bipartisan Senate bill, passed 89-10, to extend the payroll tax cut for a few months so a deal can be worked out, House Republicans killed it [...]
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If you take a government program, change everything about it, destroy its core purpose, but keep the same name, is it the same program? Politifact.com says yes, and even goes so far as to say it is “The Lie Of The Year” to say it isn’t — because it still has the same name. Early [...]
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“If I had a world of my own,” said Alice, “everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t.” I can’t take it anymore. I just can’t. In fact I’m falling down the rabbit hole even as we speak. ‘PolitiFact,’ a project of the St. Petersburg Times, [...]
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Here is how far we have fallen: Republicans and big corporations are going to extremes, even threatening to shut down entire agencies of the government, just to keep people from knowing what their rights are. They are “investigating” the NLRB for enforcing the laws that cover employees and employers. They are pledging to block any [...]
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It’s adorable that Politifact’s “lie of the year” is being touted as some kind of overwhelming proof that the Republicans didn’t vote to end Medicare when they all voted to replace it with an inadequate voucher program. Does everyone know that the Republicans stuffed the ballot box? Dave Weigel flagged this back on December 7th: [...]
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Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution – buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning: every American dollar spent on an American-made product helps create an American job. Defying Sawyer’s admonition to search for “Made in America” tags, California set a record [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Ryan-Wyden – Killing Medicare Before Our Eyes OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “The ‘Ryan-Wyden plan’ is a perfect case study in the [...]
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This last week we’ve seen how Washington’s elites are able to suppress popular opinion, work against the public interest, and wrap it all up with a bow so that it looks like ‘democracy in action.’ It’s not. What we’re seeing isn’t democracy, and it isn’t a free press either. It’s merely another cynical ploy to [...]
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