"Words that make actions speak louder."
In the Reality-Based Community, the disappointing job reports are evidence we need our government to do more to get the economy on sound footing. In Conservative Fiction Land, the disappointing jobs reports are evidence we need to go back to the policies that gave us disastrous job reports. The House Majority Leader John Boehner and […]
Today, the President visited his third American auto plants in recent weeks, highlighting the fact that all three major American automakers are now profitable after government intervention and restructuring of the industry. Also today, the Medicare trustees reported that the new health care reform law has strengthened the Medicare trust fund, extending its solvency for […]
In an article for The Daily Beast, economist James K. Galbraith makes the case against cutting Social Security and for expanding it, leveraging the fiscally sound retirement insurance program to help alleviate the jobs crisis: Cutting Social Security would simply create more poor elderly—those who could not turn to their children—and more stressed working families—those […]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today finally overcame the conservative filibuster blocking aid to fiscally distressed states, securing the votes of the not-as-insane Republican senators from Maine, giving him a 61-vote supermajority to
The Senate is expected to vote today on providing $26 billion in aid to fiscally distressed states and cities. The vote is about many things. Jobs. Health care. Tax fairness. But it’s not about the deficit. Why? Because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has completely offset the cost. Any Senator who claims to oppose this […]
Earlier this week, NYTimes.com highlighted the above Bloggingheads.tv clip of Conor Friedersdorf and myself discussing the effectiveness of, in Conor’s words, the attitude of parts of both conservative and progressive movements to treat politics as “war” with “ruthless” tactics. Putting aside the debate whether liberals and conservatives are equally unethical on this score (Conor suggested […]
In two weeks at the 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, hundreds of thousands of bikers will have a chance to send a message to Harley-Davidson, Inc. and its fellow irresponsible corporations: Stop hoarding profits. Create jobs. Support America. Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Inc. tries pretty hard to be seen as the all-American company. But its business practices […]
Conservative corporate executives — many of whom are raking in profits while refusing to create jobs — continue to complain that President Obama’s agenda is blame for the weak economy because it has created too much
At Netroots Nation today, Van Jones sought to rally attendees after the Senate leadership put plans for a climate protection bill on the back burner: “This thing is not over.” He’s right, for one very simple reason. It is against the law under the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court has ruled, for the Environmental […]
A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds the most Americans do not support broad cuts in Social Security, either by raising the retirement age or the payroll tax. Oddly, that news is buried in the second-to-last paragraph of the USA Today article of the poll, and is not even mentioned in the Gallup.com write-up. Instead, the […]