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Angry Voters Choose Government Gridlock, Investigations and Shutdown
Bob Cesca By Bob Cesca Author, “One Nation Under Fear” There are a variety of explanations for the frustratingly backwards outcome of Tuesday’s election. Clearly Americans were dissatisfied with the...
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The Coming Shutdowns and Showdowns: What’s Really at Stake
Robert Reich By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Wisconsin is in a showdown. Washington is headed for a government shutdown. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won’t...
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Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Paying Ransom to Avoid a Shutdown
Robert Reich By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley It’s called ransom. That’s what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not...
View ArticleGOP Budget Values: The Game Show Where Republicans Choose, Americans Lose!
This film by American United for Change shows in stark terms what the country club conservatives value — corporations — and what they don’t — kids.
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Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown and What’s Really at Stake
Robert Reich By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor...
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Mirrors in the Funhouse – or Off the Cliff?
Carl Pope By Carl Pope Chairman, Sierra Club New York — The business executives and bankers at the Bloomberg New Energy Summit are living in a world in which Bank of America CEO Chad Holliday says he...
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The Cal Coolidge/Paul Ryan Budget
Mike Lux By Mike Lux Author, “The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be” One of the nice things about Republicans when they get into positions of power is that they do our side...
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Government Shutdowns Get The 1% What They Want
Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's FutureA while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and...
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Congress Is Back, Republicans Again Threaten Shutdowns For 1% Agenda
Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future Congress is back in session and Republicans are right back to shutdown threats. Once again Republicans are trying to use shutdown threats to bust...
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A Modest Proposal to Restore Constitutional Government
By Carl Pope Executive Chairman, Sierra Club Walking along the shoreline trail that edges San Francisco Bay in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the park police are on the job; and the signs...
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The GOP’s Shutdown Tab: One Billion Dollars and Counting
By Richard (RJ) Eskow Writer; Host, "The Breakdown;" Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future Forty million dollars an hour. A third of a billion every day. $1.6 billion every week. That’s a...
View ArticleGOP Shakedown
Republicans tried and tried, more than 40 times, in fact. Unlike the Little Engine That Could, the GOP couldn’t. They just couldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act. Last week they switched tracks to...
View ArticleGet Your GOP Hands Off My Medicare
In the early days, the iconic image of D.C.-hating Tea Partiers was a sign reading: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.” Occasionally their protest placards added a little profanity to that...
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