CAF In The News

huffingtonpost.com — It is possible that there is going to be a "deficit commission" to look for ways to reduce our country's budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction.

huffingtonpost.com — I'm looking forward to the 2010 elections. We need them.

Many dread how badly the election is shaping up. Commentators predict double digit Democratic losses in the House and further retreat from the sixty vote threshold in the Senate. We fear a progressive era strangled in its infancy.

alternet.org — Don't expect media coverage of the big Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville next month. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have nixed the press.

huffingtonpost.com — There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress -- to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative -- sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health care.

fdlaction.firedoglake.com — Libertarian Michael Ostralenk of the Campaign for Liberty helped put together the coalition that signed the December 2 CAF letter opposing the Bernanke reappointment until the Federal Reserve had been audited. It was signed by myself, Robert Borosage, Dean Baker, Chris Bowers, Adam Green, James Galbraith, Tyler Durden and Tiffiniy Cheng (who blogs over at the Seminal today).

citizen-times.com — As the Democrats in Congress approach the end of a frustrating first year's legislative effort, their leaders and the White House are being tempted by three possible shortcuts around the regular lawmaking process. Though the Democrats have a majority of 20 seats in the Senate and 79 seats in the House, now, just a week before Christmas, the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader and the White House have failed -- so far -- to pass into law their desired legislation in the matters of 1) health care provision and financing, 2) public debt and deficit reduction, and 3) carbon regulation and taxation.

www1.voanews.com — U.S. President Barack Obama's domestic political challenges appear to grow more complicated each day. In addition to facing virtually unanimous Republican opposition on issues like health-care reform, the president must now contend with a growing chorus of discontent on his political left, from liberals within his own Democratic Party.

californiaprogressreport.com — A letter in Tuesday's San Jose Mercury News expresses the misguided but oft-repeated Republican "spin" that tax cuts and deregulation "create jobs". As usual it bears little resemblance to the truth.

rawstory.com — The responsibility for the most partisan atmosphere in Washington history goes to President Barack Obama, according to Sen. John McCain. "[Obama] said there would be a change in the climate in Washington," McCain told Fox News' Chris Wallace. "There's been a change. It's more partisan. It's more bitterly divided than it's been."

seekingalpha.com — I have read Mr. Alexander's piece beginning "Since the new year, The Post's integrity has come under withering assault from those claiming it took special-interest 'propaganda' and passed it off as a news story. That's false..." and Mr. Pianin and Ms. Povich's note stating that they found the ombudsman's piece "a fair, balanced and dispassionate look at the controversy, in contrast to some of the more inflammatory and one-sided stories and blogs published by our critics..."