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Obama turns to his bipartisan deficit commission’s blueprint for reducing debt

washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Reporters Lori Montgomery and Zachary A. Goldfarb quoted Campaign for America's Future's co-director Roger Hickey in a story on President Obama's speech on the 2012 budget. They wrote:
"One liberal group, the Campaign for America’s Future, began mobilizing Monday to ramp up pressure on the White House in advance of Obama’s speech.
"The group sent an e-mail alert asking its members to contact the White House and warn against cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
"Roger Hickey, co-director of group, said many on the left “fear” that Obama will try to find a middle ground with Ryan — eliminating the Democrats’ ability to present themselves as the saviors of Social Security."

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Robert Borosage is quoted in The Washington Post's "The Morning Plum"

From washingtonpost.com
April 15th, 2011

washingtonpost.com — "Liberals won’t accept any mushy compromise talk: ....A good formulation from Bob Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future:
`“They will expect the president to come out right away and expose how preposterous Ryan’s plan is. It’s bald and brazen and incredibly indefensible, and the president better make that clear.'”

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Republican Budget SO Loony Even The Nuts Think It's Nuts!

By Dave Johnson
April 13, 2011

The Republican budget is SO loony it's even scaring the right-wing nuts! How often does THAT happen? more »

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Attention Democrats: Don't Be Fooled, Bowles-Simpson Plan=Ryan Budget-Lite

By Daniel Marans
April 13, 2011

Liberals don't like the prospect of the Bowles-Simpson plan becoming the starting point of deficit reduction talks, because it is too centrist to offer Democrats a strong bargaining hand. But if you look more closely, it's far worse than that. Bowles-Simpson is Ryan-lite.

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The PEOPLE'S Budget Plan From The Progressive Caucus

By Dave Johnson
April 12, 2011

"Budgets are more than collections of numbers. They are a statement of our values." more »

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Did Koch Industries Write The Budget Deal?

By Dave Johnson
April 12, 2011

Did Koch Industries write the budget deal? more »

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Sen. Conrad Unifies Dems Against Ryan. Yes, Kent Conrad!

By Roger Hickey
April 5, 2011

House Budget chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution has been rightly condemned by anyone who cares about economic recovery, Medicare, Medicaid, public investment, programs for the poor and disadvantaged, tax justice, and just plain honesty in budgeting. more »

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Ryan’s Roadmap to Ruin: Caters to the Wealthy and Would Bury the Middle Class

By Elizabeth Rose
April 5, 2011
April 5, 2011

Washington, DC – Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, made the following statement about Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: more »

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The Kidnapper's Guide to Negotiating a Budget (or, Why We Need an Independent, Non-Party Movement)

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
March 31, 2011

Oh, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. Your party's symbol's an ass - a word that was on John Boehner's lips this week, and maybe some other people's too.

Here's how it went down: First House Republicans proposed $32 billion in cuts. The President offered $6.5 billion. The House passed a bill cutting $60billion. Then the Tea Party demanded $100 billion. Now we're told that everybody has agreed to a "compromise" number: $33 billion.

That's just one billion more than the Republicans in Congress originally demanded. Way to negotiate, Democrats!

That's why we need an independent movement that will fight for the public's best interests.

Put up your hands and fight like a gentleman, sir!

In the bloodbath that is modern American politics, the courtly Dems still want to fight by Marquis of Queensbury rules. In the budget battle, they've once again put up their dukes for a polite "bout of fisticuffs" while their opponents pummel them with knives, clubs, brass knuckles, numchucks, AK-47's, and tactical nuclear weapons.

The imagery's just a figure of speech, of course.

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Negotiation 101 for Dems: The Right Policies Are The Right Politics

By Dave Johnson
March 30, 2011

Bloggers always wonder why Democrats couldn’t get anything done even when they had a solid majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, while Republicans get everything they want even when they are in the minority. Take the current budget negotiations, for example. more »

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