Isaiah J. Poole

Isaiah J. Poole
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  • Published The African-American Community Needs A "Jobs Surge" (Blog entry)
    March 17, 2010 - 10:44am

    The nation is facing a jobs crisis, but “crisis” doesn’t begin to tell the story in the African-American community. “Five-alarm emergency” comes closer.

  • Published Broken Government: Conservatives Keep Up Record Pace Of Obstruction (Blog entry)
    March 12, 2010 - 4:07pm

    A Center for American Progress report this week chronicles just how obstructionist conservatives in the Senate continue to be as they use the filibuster to block reform efforts in the Senate.

  • Published This Jobs Bill Could Work (Blog entry)
    March 10, 2010 - 3:45pm

    Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that is a meaningful response to the nation's jobs crisis. It still falls short of the need, but it would accomplish far more than the anemic measures that have been served up by Congress so far.

  • Shared Citizen's Posse Serves Warrant Against Health Insurers (Video)
    March 10, 2010 - 2:26am

    Health insurance executives who came to Washington's Ritz-Carlton Hotel for their big trade conference on March 9 were greeted by a "citizen's posse" armed with arrest warrants charging them with crimes ranging from fraud to the involuntary manslaughter of 45,000 people who could not get health coverage.

  • Published Citizen's Posse Serves Warrant Against Health Insurers (Blog entry)
    March 10, 2010 - 1:38am
  • Shared Why Democrats Should Pick A Fight On Immigration (Progressive Opinion)
    March 9, 2010 - 4:24pm

    The great thing about racists is they'll always take the bait. You won't get far into an immigration-reform debate, for instance, before the GOP's more zealous legislators start doing things like criminalizing priests and calling Miami a "third world country." Which is why Democrats ought to be more eager to spend 2010 debating immigration.

  • Shared Doomsday for the CFPA? (Progressive Opinion)
    March 9, 2010 - 4:07pm

    Last fall, Sen. Christopher Dodd called the Federal Reserve’s regulatory efforts an “abysmal failure.” And yet, on March 1, he proposed housing a consumer protection agency within the Fed instead of establishing it as its own independent entity. This drastic change in strategy has left many Democrats shaking their heads. WTF, Senator Dodd?

  • Shared Way Too Big To Save (Progressive Opinion)
    March 9, 2010 - 4:07pm

    Listening to U.S. officials, talking to legal experts, and waiting for an intense Senate debate on financial reform to begin, you can easily form the impression that “too big to fail” adequately describes our most serious future systemic banking problems. It does not. Here are some mistakes to avoid.

  • Shared What Is So Nuclear About Majority Rule? (Progressive Opinion)
    March 9, 2010 - 4:07pm

    Reconciliation has been used to pass bills 21 times, 16 times by Republicans. So why is the minority party now calling this process a parliamentarian trick, an attempt to ram something down the mouth of the Republicans? Why is the media following their cue and using the same language?

  • Published Listen Up, Tom DeLay: Nine Jobseekers For Every Job (Blog entry)
    March 9, 2010 - 11:47am

    Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be dancing with the stars in his head Sunday when he said on CNN that "there is an argument to be made" that an extension unemployment benefits, such as the one that conservative Republican Sen.