Obama ‘gearing up for a fight’ – By JONATHAN MARTIN with Politico.com President Barack Obama is beginning the salesmanship of his far-reaching $3.6 trillion budget with a populist blast at powerful interests he says will fight it – all but challenging his opponents to bring it on. President Barack Obama challenged the nation’s vested interests to [...]
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The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party - By Jane Devin with the Huffington Post When Ronald Reagan began courting the religious right in his bid to win the Presidency, I doubt he knew he was spelling death to the lean tenets of Goldwater conservatism. Yet soon afterward, under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican [...]
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10 Reasons Why Conservatives’ Fiscal Ideas Are Dangerous – By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America’s Future Yes, it’s true. The conservatives — that’s right, the very same folks who just dragged us along on an eight-year drunken binge during which they borrowed-and-spent us into the deepest financial catastrophe in nearly a century — are now [...]
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President Obama presented an outline of his national health care plan, which is pretty amazing, given he has had so much on his plate dealing with all the crisis’s left for him by the Bush Administration. There will be much more to follow and the debate will be long and arduous. I expect the right-wingers, [...]
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The President’s Budget: Turning The Ship of State Around – By Bill Scher Today’s presidential budget proposal if enacted would be the second step, following the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, in turning the ship of state away from the cliffs of conservatism and on the path of active progressive government.
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Finally, A President Who Works for Workers – By Leo Gerard It would be easy in these troubled times to shrink from campaign promises, to cower from the greatness that might have been, to claim that the beast of the Bush recession had devoured the nation’s potential to achieve great goals. President Barack Obama chose [...]
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10% hike in Congressional budget tied to GOP staff? by David Waldman aka Kagro X with Congress Matters Huffington Post picks up an interesting story. Apparently the Legislative Branch appropriations portion of the omnibus bill beginning consideration today in the House contains a 10% increase in funding levels. Why?
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By Douglas MacKinnon with the Huffington Post As actors Sean Penn and Tom Hanks have recently demonstrated, emotions are still running very hot when it comes to Proposition 8 and Gay marriage. At the Academy Awards, Penn just said that traditional marriage voters should “sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame [...]
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A Republican Answers Our Presidents Call – by FTMACKINC on Newsvine President Obama I am with you. I hear your words, I watched your speech and I am with you. You speak of good clear objectives that I understand and for the most can support. I, as an American citizen, support you. As an American [...]
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The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino By Arianna Huffington founder of the Huffington Post Hot on the heels of the banking crisis, the employment crisis, and the mortgage/foreclosure crisis, the country is on the verge of experiencing a credit card crisis. According to the Federal Reserve, the total outstanding credit card debt [...]
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Americans should not forget the fact that George W. Bush presided over the largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson, some estimates put it as much as 40%. Spending under Bush doubled the national debt to $10 trillion (which doesn’t count such things as the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare). His veto pen [...]
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UPDATE 2-28-09 By Josh Marshall with Talking Points Memo files the following follow-up: Well, it just gets better and better. As you know, we’ve been tracking the debunking of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tall tale about being right there on the front lines fighting government bureaucracy with Sheriff Harry Lee while the boat rescues were [...]
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