Progressive Breakfast


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Progressive Breakfast: Will Republicans Show Up?

On the menu this morning:
  • Republicans Put Conditions On Attending Health Care Summit
  • Spotlight Turned On Half-Baked Conservative Health Care Ideas
  • Jobs Bill Talks Slog Through Second DC Snowstorm
  • Sen. Ben Nelson Backs Becker Filibuster, As WH Amps Up Filibuster Attack
  • Will Republicans Back Tax Increase To Fund Transportation?
  • Elizabeth Warren Takes On Wall Street In Wall Street Journal
  • Is Obama Failing or Succeeding?
  • Rep. John Murtha Remembered

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Progressive Breakfast: Is The Senate Broken?

On the menu this morning:
  • New Rules Needed So Senate Can Govern
  • Bipartisan Health Care Meet. Calling Their Bluff?
  • Snowstorm Buys Dems Time On Jobs Bill
  • Wall Street Shifting Money To Republicans
  • President Walking Fine Line On Trade
  • Social Security Hysteria Redux
  • Climate Roundup
  • Palin Cheats To Pass Tea Party Test

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Progressive Breakfast: Bipartisan Jobs Bill?

On the menu this morning:
  • Senate Shoots For Bipartisan Jobs Bill
  • Frustration Over Health Care Strategy
  • Budget Backlash
  • Dodd Tries To Move Financial Reform, But In What Direction?
  • Support Still Big For Climate Protection, Clean Energy Investment
  • Flurry Of Campaign Finance Proposals
  • China May Concede On Currency

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Progressive Breakfast: ConservaDems Shrink Jobs Bill

On the menu this morning:
  • How Small Is The Senate Jobs Bill?
  • Subtle Friction Between President and Senate over Health Car
  • Graham Doubles Down On Comprehensive Climate Bill
  • New Biofuel, Carbon Capture Initiative
  • Bailout Bonus Tax
  • Scott Brown Swearing-In May Kill NLRB Nom
  • Tea Party Conference Starts Tomorrow

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Progressive Breakfast: Senate Jobs Plan ... Too Timid?

On the menu this morning:
  • Senate Jobs Package Coming Tomorrow
  • Dodd Criticizes WH For Late Push On Tough Bank Reform
  • Bailed Out Institutions Still Paying Big Bonuses
  • Compromise Health Care Bill In The Works
  • Obama Signals Senate May "Separate" Cap-and-Trade From Energy Bill
  • Deficit Fever
  • Bipartisan Outreach: Ingenuous Or Futile?

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Progressive Breakfast: No Budget Love

On the menu this morning:
  • Split Reaction From Dems. Scorn From GOPers. Another Day in Washington.
  • Attempt To Extend Recovery Act Outside Of Freeze
  • Deficit Dodos
  • How Well Did Obama Wield The Scalpel?
  • House Leaders Say: Freeze Military Spending Too
  • No Headway On Health Care In Budget
  • Mixed Reaction On Clean Energy Budget
  • Is Dodd Out To Kill Glass-Steagall 2?
  • America Still Blue

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Progressive Breakfast: $100B For Jobs In New WH Budget

On the menu this morning:
  • $100B Jobs Plan In New White House Budget
  • What Gets More Investment? What Gets Cut?
  • Was There A Health Care Deal?
  • Financial Industry Backed Scott Brown, Prepared To Spend More To Kill Reform
  • WH Pushes Nuclear Button To Save Climate Bill
  • Progressive Reaction To Obama/House GOP "Question Time"

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Progressive Breakfast: The Incredibly Shrinking Senate Jobs Bill

On the menu this morning:
  • Senate Jobs Bill May Be Less Than Half of House Bill
  • 5.7% GDP Growth in 4Q 2009, But Keep Champagne On Ice
  • Bernanke Nom Approved By Narrowest Margin Ever
  • Right-leaning Dems Whine About SOTU, Take No Responsibility
  • Legislation Forthcoming to Close New Foreign Campaign Cash Loophole
  • Health Care Path Unclear, Yet Many See Reconciliation
  • High-Speed Rail Funding Announced, But Is It Enough?
  • Debt Commission Deal Details
  • What If They Threw A Tea Party And Nobody Showed Up?

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Progressive Breakfast: After SOTU, Push For Jobs

On the menu this morning:
  • Jobs Center Stage in SOTU
  • Obama Threatens Veto Of Weak Financial Reform
  • What's Next For Health Care?
  • Obama Keeps Climate As Priority, Graham Seeks To Clarify Position
  • Bernanke Vote Could Come Today, After Geithner Takes Lumps
  • Remembering Howard Zinn

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Progressive Breakfast: Barack Hoover Obama?

On the menu this morning:
  • Obama Compared To Hoover After Announcing Spending Freeze
  • Middle-Class Offered Tax Help, But What About Jobs?
  • Bernanke Gaining Support But Still Short of Majority
  • Attempt to Lower Temperature On Health Care

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