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• The Big Zero

  
  Occidental Dissent — Authority: 480
  In The New York Times , Paul Krugman describes the 2000s as The Big Zero: a decade in which nothing good happened, there was zero economic gain for the average family, zero gains for homeowners, zero gain for the stock market. That’s the progressive spin. In fact, the average White American is worse off in ...
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• Pass the Health Care Bill: Then Improve It

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 486
  Peter Dreier: It is incredibly irresponsible for some radicals and progressives to call for killing the health care bill. It is important to push for changes that would improve the Senate version of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  11 hours ago

• The Koolaid High Has Worn Off; Where Is The Heroin?

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 487
  I received the following article from the National Black Republican Association, and wowza, has the koolaid worn off for a certain progressive democratic professor, and one has to wonder if he is scrambling around looking for some heroin now?David Michael Green is an associate professor of political science at Hofstra ...
  15 hours ago

• This ain’t the 1990’s

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 433
  Eugene at DK has a very popular post that dovetails into what I was talking about here . As we reach the end of the Zeroes, the first decade of the 21st century, it may seem an odd question to ask whether anyone has realized the previous decade, the 1990s, are over. Yet judging by the discussions in recent days ...
  21 hours ago

• >>“And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity” This is a read-over, or perhaps a ‘must read-over’. BB

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 140
  I said in the title that this post is a read over because it has been posted before.  But we need to remember how it started and where we were and where we are now.  Besides it is so well written by YadkinView.com  BB “And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity” Again we thank:   ...
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• >>U.S. promises unlimited financial assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac – washingtonpost.com

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 140
  U.S. promises unlimited financial assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac – washingtonpost.com The Obama Administration was handing out some high-end Christmas gifts  Christmas Eve.  Remember the once private mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that  you the tax payer bought with the Bail Out of October ...
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• Sunday Afternoon Relaxation

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 450
  Some random, twisted excerpts from Dave Barry on the money, madness and misery of 2009 : Bad news: The economy remained critically weak, with risingunemployment, a severely depressed real-estate market, thenear-collapse of the domestic automobile industry and the steep declineof the dollar. Good news: Windows ...
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• Harkin Considering Filibuster Reform (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  Dovetailing with what I posted yesterday, Bleeding Heartland reports that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (D) is considering proposing filibuster reform.Apparently Harkin proposed just such a bill back in 1995, when Democrats were in the minority.Here are the details:To keep the spirit of slowing down legislation, though, ...
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• “The specter of repeal is going to be around for a while”

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 450
  The health reform bill hasnt yet become law and Reed Abelsen wonders about the likely effort to repeal it: Sometimes it ain’t over even when it’s over ... Few people outside health policy circles may recall it, but twodecades ago, after Congress congratulated itself on the passage ofanother health care ...
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• Senate Bill Penalizes States That Have Already Expanded The Poors Access To Health Care

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 450
  NY Times : States that have already broadly expanded health care coverage arepushing back against the Senate overhaul bill, arguing that it unfairlypenalizes them in favor of states that have done little or nothing toextend benefits to the uninsured. With tax revenues down andbudgets breaking, the states — ...
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• Go read this to understand my thinking

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 562
  Daily Kos: The Anti-Corporatist Movement None of this is to argue that progressives should give up on advocating for progressive policy, although it needs to be remembered that there is quite a bit of ideological range within the progressive movement. What I am arguing is that progressives need to adopt a strategy ...
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• Should The Filibuster Be Eliminated?

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  Definitely not.But should the Senate rules be changed in order to end the Republican minority’s rampant filibuster abuse?Definitely, yes.Don’t get me wrong, I believe that the Senate is the world’s most deliberative body for a reason–unlike the House, the Senate has significant protections for the rights of ...
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• Second Batch

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * While we still come down on opposite sides of the particular questions involved, Traxus has a mostly good piece on Copenhagen, health care, and everything else . But if the term ‘progressive’ is to be taken seriously, a different political reality has to be embraced. All the feel-good talk about ‘getting ...
  2 days ago

• Skilled Trades in Progressive Cross-hairs: Plumber Mike Hanley Sets Things Straight

  
  . . . With Both Hands — Authority: 478
  Progressives want to see the end of the Skilled Trades, because they believe that all labor should be subsumed by Andy Sterns SEIU. The Skilled Trades built the vanishing American Standard of Living and the American Middle Class. Skilled Trades Unions are always targeted by media investigative cadres. There is ...
  2 days ago

• Progressives

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 434
    Glenn Beck A Closer Look At The Progressive Movement Common Sense, 5, Part 1, The Cancer of Progressivism Common Sense, 5, Part 2, The Cancer of Progressivism Common Sense, 5, Part 3, The Cancer of Progressivism Common Sense, 3, Part 1, The Political Weapon of Choice, The Tax Code ...
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• So Many Post-Christmas Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  Sneaking in a quick linkdump between light posting due to Christmas and light posting due to MLA… * The Senate bill has, as you undoubtedly already know, passed. Ezra Klein , Kevin Drum , and even Jonathan Chait have this more or less right: winning ugly is still winning. There’ll be time to get started on ...
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• While White House Condemns Liberals, Congressional Moderates Remain Inflexible

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 496
  Now that the House and Senate have passed heathcare bills, the process of merging the disparate proposals must take place. The White House has branded liberals who oppose the more conservative Senate bill as inflexible and impractical. But moderates, whom Obama has eagerly sought to appease during the legislative ...
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• The Idealist / Pragmatist Split Within The Democratic Party

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 450
  NY Times : Howard Dean ran for president in 2004 as the outsider ready to battle an entrenchedestablishment in Washington. And so, four years later, did Barack Obama . Now, one year into Mr.Obama’s presidency, a sharp dispute between the president and Mr. Deanover the health care bill the Senate approved ...
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• Nuns & Catholic Hospitals Approve Senate Bill. Cover For Pro-Life Dems?

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 450
  NY Times : In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion -financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compromise on the issue,raising hopes of breaking an impasse in Congress and stirringcontroversy ...
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• My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 423
  Welcome once again to our year-end wrapup and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group , from whom I have stolen all these award categories. We will begin this week with Part 1 of these annual awards, and then next Friday on New Years Day, we will present Part 2 , ...
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