"Words that make actions speak louder."
Politicians in both political parties are leaning on the Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction plan as a political crutch to make them appear “serious” to the inside-the-Beltway crowd. But if that crutch is merely enabling a nation to hobble over the edge of a cliff, then the best thing to do is to take the crutch away and push the country and its politicians in the opposite direction.
What is now more clear than ever is that building a progressive political force is a 24/7/365 effort. It’s not just work to be done during election cycles, and not just done in presidential and congressional elections.
Tuesday morning at the Take Back the American Dream conference included major sessions on how to build a lasting progressive power base, from the ground up.
As progressive leaders from around the country prepare for next week’s Take Back the American Dream conference, we’re not waiting to start hitting Congress with our key demand: Bury austerity, put jobs first and resurrect the middle class.
We give a hat tip to Paul Krugman for recalling the infamous 2008 statement by Phil Gramm, then-presidential candidate John McCain’s top economic advisor, that what Krugman is now calling
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When Van Jones took to the stage as the closing keynote speaker for the Netroots Nations conference Saturday afternoon, he began with the obvious. Yes, progressive activists are disheartened by losing the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin. They are bitterly disappointed with President Obama for failing to govern as the progressive he projected himself as being in 2008. Perhaps the best strategy for avoiding having to settle for a bad “grand bargain” on the federal deficit that would shortchange the pillars of economic security for struggling households is to jump off the feared “fiscal cliff” at the end of the year and push Congress into negotiating a new budget plan in a world in which the Bush tax breaks no longer exist, Sen. There were rumblings that Thursday’s Netroots Nation keynote address by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general and the head of an Obama administration task force on Wall Street fraud, was going to be disrupted by protestors. There is some good news in the fight for homeowners and against the big banks. Homeowners who are facing foreclosures because of unfair and often illegal practices by the major financial Goliaths are learning how to organize, how to shame bank executives and how to get local media attention. In less than 36 hours, a petition by Rebuild the Dream calling on the Department of Justice to focus on prosecuting crimes done by Wall Street executives during the financial crisis has collected more than 50,000 signatures. For the progressive movement, it’s put up or shut up time in Wisconsin. The Goal: “A Movement Big Enough To Win In November And December”
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