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Some Middle-Class Zeros Could Get Zeroed Out Tuesday
At least seven toss-up races in the House that will be decided Tuesday feature strong progressive challengers trying to unseat Republican incumbents who received zeros in this year’s...
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7 Exciting, Inspiring – and Overlooked – Lessons From the “99 Percent” Election
So, let’s get this straight: A Republican President is re-elected in 2004 with 284 electoral votes, and the pundits tell us he has the “political capital” to push an extreme right-wing mandate. A...
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Progressive Messaging Wins – Just ask Tammy Baldwin
In a night that was full of sweet victories, few were sweeter than Democrat Tammy Baldwin’s successful bid for Wisconsin’s senate seat. As she said in her acceptance speech, it was “a huge victory for...
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What’s Still On The Table In The Grand Bargain Talks?
Not that anyone cares, but it seems that a vast majority of the American public think raising the Medicare eligibility age is stupid: Greg Sargent talks about this issue in depth in this post. He says...
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Surprise, Surprise: Some In GOP Back Tax Hikes In Exchange For Cuts In...
Nobody who reads this blog will be the least bit surprised by this turn of events: A growing chorus of Republicans is urging House leaders to abandon their staunch opposition to higher tax rates for...
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“Tell Me Again How That Person Won’t Miss Her Medicare”
This piece by Aaron Carroll explains in full detail why raising the Medicare age is daft (and cruel): What you’re seeing is life expectancy at age 65 broken out in to the top half of earners and the...
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"Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion
A growing number Republican Governors are refusing to expand their state Medicaid programs. The Supreme Court weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the Affordable Care Act, when it ruled that...
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What’s The Cure For Shorter Lives And Poorer Health In America? Can You Say...
Harold Myerson, over at the Washington Post, points out a new report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine contains some bad news about about the America’s health. The title...
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The GOP and Obama’s Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 2
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that Republicans who were incensed that President Obama had nothing to say to them in his inaugural address should be far more worried the possibility that the...
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The GOP and Obama’s Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 3
Like I said in the first post in this series, Obama didn’t waste time talking to Republicans in his inaugural address because he didn’t need to talk to them. President Obama’s biggest accomplishments...
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Paul Ryan Wants To Get Thin Without Counting His Love Handles
This is not a post about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) exercise and diet program. It is, however, a post about how he’s planning to produce a budget that gets to balance in 10...
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Addiction, Recovery, and The Sequester
It was only a matter of time. As the debate over the sequester’s damaging, “just plain dumb,” across-the-board cuts ramped up, I just knew someone on the right would attempt to draw the analogy...
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Paul Ryan’s Medicare Voucher Plan Is Back!
House Republicans won’t give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare. In fact, Representative Paul Ryan now wants to make it happen even sooner. As the House GOP is currently preparing their new...
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Shopping Cart Conservatism At CPAC
Just as Liberals have time honored pilgrimages, such as the annual march on Washington, so do conservatives. Last week, thousands of conservative activist and nearly a dozen possible 2016 Republican...
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Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare...
Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower...
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What About The Children?
“We must embrace the need for modest reforms—otherwise our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children.” President Obama, State of the union address, 2013 Is that...
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Double Trouble: Get Ready For The Next IRS “Scandal”
Yes, they’re already on it: On top of the troubles the administration is facing over its handling of the attack on the Benghazi mission, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative...
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Reformed to Death: More On the Catastrophic Success of Welfare Reform
When Paul Ryan first introduced his first “Path to Prosperity” budget proposal, he framed it as an attempt to build upon the “successful” welfare reform of the late 1990s. At the time, I wrote that...
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