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Jeffrey Sachs: ‘The People’s Budget’
Jeffrey Sachs has posted an excellent piece on The Huffington Post regarding the only sane budget proposal floating around Washington D.C. HuffingtonPost.com: Just when it seemed that all of Washington had lost its values and its connection with the American … Continue reading
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Gutting America
Now that the budget cuts have been released for public viewing I am reminded that we have a Democratic president who enjoys passing Republican policies. This budget as it stands now is the gutting of America and the road to … Continue reading
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Filed under Business, Government, National Issues, Obama, Opinion
Government Shutdown Narrowly Averted
Just before the midnight deadline Congress has passed a temporary budget deal that will prevent the furlough of thousands of workers and ensure that U.S. combat troops do not go unpaid. Reportedly this budget contains $39 billion in cuts and … Continue reading
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Senate Reconciliation Now!
The Republican obstructionism on the health care reform agenda is not “principled objections” as Senate minority leader Eric Cantor suggests. It is non-principled, pure nihilistic policy of poisoning the well and deception on behalf of conservatives. The liberal majority that … Continue reading
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Texas Joins In On The Science-Denial Trend
The state of Texas has jumped on the science-denial bandwagon currently gripping the right-wing. Texas has challenged the EPA findings that greenhouse gas emissions are classified as “dangerous,” claiming that the findings are based on flawed science. This is of … Continue reading
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Justice for ACORN
I do ever so love being vindicated! What most call “the Acorn scandal” is the “O’Keefe Smear Crusade” to me. This whole so-called “scandal” was all the brain-child of one sick and very likely racist individual. To his discredit President … Continue reading
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U.S. History in the Making (Health Care)
(Big3News) My political predictions have once again proven true. I predicted at the onset of the national and Congressional debate over health care coverage in the US that we would see a bill pass both House and Senate but that … Continue reading
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Urban Institute Overviews The Public Option
Ezra Klein of The Washington Post has called this the “best overview of the public option” he has read so far, and I concur: Getting to a Public Option that Contains Costs: Negotiations, Opt-Outs and Triggers Robert A. Berenson, John … Continue reading
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Ayn Rand is Running the TEA Party
(Boston Globe) Coldhearted novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is Running the both the TEA Party and the GOP, her self-serving ideology the real backdrop of the modern political right-wing. – – Alan Greenspan was one of many Randites who have come to … Continue reading
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Open Letter to Harry Reid (Public Option)
Firedoglake has a section entitled “FDL Action” in which I found an easy way to send Senator Harry Reid a little bit of my mind on the health care debate & the matter of the need for a government-run public option … Continue reading
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Policies Over Personalities in Partisan Politics
Image: SustainAbility.com Al Gore – “Republicans are the best sellers of the worst products.” Gore is right about the Republicans, but moreover he made this simple point without the venom we so often see in political right-wing … Continue reading
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Alan Grayson is my Hero
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) is demaning an apology from Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) for statements on the floor, but Price himself praised the breach of decorum of Rep. Joe Wilson when it suited him. Alan Grayson did something very simple … Continue reading
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Eric Lightborn
