"Words that make actions speak louder."
UPDATE 9/22/10 7:45 PM ET: Sen. Durbin’s view was not reported accurately by Bloomberg. He believes we should not begin deficit reduction until unemployment drops below 6%, not 9% as stated in the initial post below. More details here. Last week, 300 economists warned Washington of the “grave danger” that a “premature focus on deficit […]
Yesterday I highlighted several campaign ads directly and indirectly defending a vote for the health care reform law. These ads are airing on the grounds that you can’t win an argument without making one. One of those ads — Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold’s — has drawn an indirect response from his opponent, CEO Ron Johnson. […]
2010 is similar to 1994 in that Americans are frustrated with the pace of economic recovery, and out-of-power conservatives appear to be more energized than progressives conflicted about compromises. But there are two big differences between the 2010 midterm elections and the last time we had a midterm election during the first term of a […]
It’s been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, six months since health care reform was signed into law, three months since seniors began receiving prescription drug rebate checks, and one week since the first round of reforms was implemented. After a bruising political fight stoking much confusion about what health care reform would actually […]
Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of the Wall Street bailout. But you can’t reasonably believe we should use taxpayer money to bail out irresponsible bankers and do nothing to insist bankers start behaving responsibly. As my colleague Zach Carter just reported, there are 69 House members and 21 Senators who unreasonably believe just […]
It’s been 20 months since America embraced a progressive path after decades of conservative failure. How have conservative leaders reacted since then? By reassessing what went wrong on their watch and offering fresh ideas? Or by completely losing their minds? For the next several weeks, OurFuture.org will seek to answer that question, with the weekly […]
This Saturday, progressives will be marching on Washington for the One Nation Working Together rally. Should you bother? The New York Times reports: Predicting a crowd of more than 100,000, some 300 liberal groups — including the N.A.A.C.P., the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the National Council of La Raza and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — […]
The following was published by the Barry Kendall of the Progressive Ideas Network, summarizing the panel discussion I participated in while at Netroots Nation 2010. At this year’s Netroots Nation convention in Las Vegas, I moderated a panel called “Think Tanks and Netroots: Best Practices for Working Together.” The panelists included: Bill Scher, Campaign for […]
The country may be cynical. The country may be dissatisfied. The country may be angry. But the country does not want to stop Barack Obama. An ABC News poll this week found that: “For all their economic gripes, 52 percent of Americans say they’d rather have President Obama than his predecessor in control of economic […]
Yesterday I noted that the highest ranking Senator on the White House deficit commission, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, heeded the recent warning from 300 economists to put jobs before deficit reduction when he told Bloomberg that we shouldn’t embark on deficit reduction until the unemployment rate goes down. But I also mentioned that Sen. […]