Posts tagged congress
Ken Blackwell: After the Flotilla Raid, Progressives Show Their True Colors
Jun 9th
Back in 1948, liberals were excited when President Harry Truman took to whistle-stopping and scorching the “do nothing 80th Congress” run by Republicans.
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Loading ...Elizabeth B. Wydra: Tipsy at the Tea Party: A Sober Look at Proposals to Repeal Portions of the Constitution
Jun 8th
It seems that Tea Partiers’ recent political victories may have gone to their heads faster than bubbles in a glass of champagne. Flush from this electoral success, the Tea Party movement is turning its attention to the Constitution with renewed fervor. The result has been some proposals that are at turns wacky, unwise, and even dangerous to our constitutional values.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Deepak Bhargava: Progressive Strategy in the Obama Era
Jun 8th
Some 500 days into the new administration, progressives are souring on President Obama’s leadership on a range of issues from jobs and energy to immigration and foreign intervention.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Primary Day: Brace Yourselves For All The Anti-Incumbent Rage!
Jun 8th
People! It’s primary day today. Have you been able to get from place to place this afternoon without stepping in a sticky puddle of anti-incumbent rage?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Terry Lozoff: Social Media Lessons From Our Friends From Across the Aisle
Jun 8th
In late May, Republicans, in need of an agenda to run on for the upcoming fall elections, turned to the general public of the Internet (can you guess where this is going?) and asked America to speak out . “America deserves a Congress that respects the priorities of the people
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Leo Hindery, Jr.: Still ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’ — Just Not the Way the Administration Is Thinking About Them
Jun 8th
OK, so it took two and a half years, but now almost every politician and pundit who matters, progressive and conservative alike, pretty much believes that the effective real unemployment rate today is on the order of 19%, and that accordingly the economy needs to create around 22 million new jobs in order to be near fully employed. The notable exceptions, unfortunately, are certain senior officials within the administration who continue to use the BLS’s lower-by-half ‘official’ unemployment rate of 10% and to suggest that we need to create around 9 million new jobs
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nevada Senate Republican Primary: GOP Candidates Face-Off For Nomination To Take On Harry Reid
Jun 8th
(AP) – Nevada Republicans pick a nominee Tuesday to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, setting the stage for an epic showdown with one of the most powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill. Republicans also must decide whether to nominate troubled Gov
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Leonce Gaiter: Obama’s Presidency Can’t Be "Transformative" — He’s a Democrat
Jun 8th
Frank Rich wrote a progressive line that is becoming as clichéd and hilarious as the conservative’s “I am not a racist, but…” The line is: ” If Obama is to have a truly transformative presidency…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Support For Unlimited Oil Spill Liability May Not Include BP: Congressman
Jun 8th
Congressional officials are worried that despite the White House’s endorsement of unlimited liability for oil companies involved in damaging spills, a new statement of presidential policy may not actually cover the current crisis in the Gulf. Rep.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CIA Inspector General Position Vacant For 14 Months
Jun 8th
WASHINGTON — More than a year after the CIA’s inspector general stepped down, frustrated members of Congress are urging the White House to fill the internal watchdog position that was central in uncovering abuses inside the spy agency.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bobby Jindal Response To Gulf Oil Spill Could Restore Status In GOP
Jun 8th
VENICE, La.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Thomas B. Edsall: The Rove Legacy
Jun 8th
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight By Karl Rove ⢠Simon and Schuster ⢠2010 ⢠520 pages ⢠$30 The evidence of the wreckage of the Bush years can be found everywhere. Under this conservative president, federal spending rose from 18.5 percent of GDP in 2001 to 21 percent in 2008, while a $125.3 billion surplus became a $364.4 billion deficit. Median family income, which had grown from $42,429 in 1980 to $46,049 in 1990, and which grew again during the Clinton Administration to $50,557 by 2000, shrank under George W.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Unemployment Benefits Are More Important Than Deficit Reduction, Say 3/4 Of Voters
Jun 7th
Three-quarters of registered voters think Congress should forget about the deficit and preserve extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Employment Law Project. Citing deficit concerns, Democrats in both chambers of Congress have said it’s time to start thinking about how to wrap up the extended unemployment benefits put in place to fight the recession. But 74 percent of people surveyed said they agreed with the statement that “it is too early to start cutting back benefits and health coverage for workers who lost their jobs.” “We cannot let a handful of misguided deficit hawks pull the plug on benefits that are precisely the kind of stimulus needed for economic recovery and deficit reduction,” said NELP director Christine Owens in a statement
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: Rethink Afghanistan: How Long is Now?
Jun 7th
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sam Bennett: WCF: Supporting women, not party politics
Jun 7th
June is a crucial month for women on the campaign trail. In tomorrow’s primary, WCF endorsed candidates Krystal Ball , Roxanne Conlin , Karen Bass , and Beth Krom will fight for more women in Congress, as will many others at the state and local level . On June 22, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall will face a run-off for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ray Suarez: Latinos and the GOP
Jun 7th
When I came up with the idea for this program, I figured I could together a group of Republicans and have a serious discussion about why the party has not succeeded among Latinos, and looks poised to do even worse in the years to come. As a guy who covers politics I figured we could brainstorm about what the GOP could do in the future to do better, how immigration was complicating Republican efforts among naturalized and native-born voters, and talk about whether hotheads in the party even realized how deeply their rhetoric alienated Latino voters. In theory, this was going to be a great show
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