Blog Archive: February, 2009

I announce, with both excitement and a heavy heart, that I'll be moving on from my work here at Campaign for America's Future to begin work on my next book. That said, one last treat: Rush!

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By virtually every economic measure that matters, the current deep recession is already the worst since the 1930s. It’s time for those wealthy debt industry geniuses — and their political and media retainers and cheerleaders — that got the world into this mess to acquire at least enough decency to be quiet while others try to figure out how to recover.

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President Obama’s budget is progressive and visionary, with new commitments on health, energy and education. But it misses one big opportunity—trimming the bloated defense budget. more »

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President's budget seeks to end era of inequality. Renewed focus on health care. Citigroup plan panned. Mortgage bill delayed.

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After last year's unfortunate absence, Ann Coulter has finally been released from whatever basement/undisclosed location/far circle of hell they'd consigned her to last year, and will be back at the podium once again in her full venomous glory this Saturday afternoon.

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Last week I wrote about the fact that there is no true competition among health insurers because there are so few of them, in most markets one insurer dominates. On the consumer end of the spectrum, there is no true competition either, because there is no way to evaluate exactly what it is you are getting when you buy health insurance. There is no standard against which you can measure what you are getting and how it will perform and no transparency in how health insurance works. We need a choice of public health insurance that will set that standard.

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The president's budget proposal turns the ship of state away from the cliffs of conservatism and onto the path of active progressive government. At least on the domestic front. The jury is out regarding military matters. And the two are related.

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In 52 minutes of inspiration, President Obama renewed his commitment to work for the benefit of working people, calling for a legislative focus this year on three areas crucial to them: education, energy and health care.

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All you really need to know about the so-called Great American Tea Party, the series of protests a coalition of right-wing organizations and bloggers is fanning around the country, is that they draw their inspiration from Rick Santelli, the CNBC on-air personality who joined the network after a stint as a vice president at Sanwa Futures LLC, where h more »

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A political tendency that relies on esoteric pope figure to interpret the actuality of plain reality is not in a good position to win the loyalty of a nation. It is, instead, a cult.

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