Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy PRAISE ZEUS! Yesterday Montana’s Max Baucus made a lot of people happy. There really isn’t enough time to explain just how villainous Max Baucus is or just what damage he did in his post on the Senate Finance Committee. Right behind Wyden in [...]
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Top Story — Demographic Shellacking Leads to GOP Immigration Epiphany, Legislation Pending *Updated*
“This is consistent with our country’s tradition of being a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.” – Senator John McCain (Press conference announcing new immigration reform push) ISN’T IT amazing what a demographic shellacking can do. Packed room at the press conference announcing the latest effort in immigration reform. A powerful group of [...]
Top Story — Obama’s Inaugural Week, Reid and Schumer’s Weaknesses Follow
The joint budget resolution could also call for Medicare reforms and using the chained CPI formula to curb the cost of Social Security benefits. These entitlement reforms combined with tax reform would give Republicans political cover to accept tax increases — or at least more cover than if tax increases were merely packaged as an [...]
News Desk: Sen. Schumer Encourages Colleagues to Confirm Chuck Hagel *Updated*
“Based on several key assurances provided by Senator Hagel,” Mr. Schumer said in a prepared statement, “I am currently prepared to vote for his confirmation. I encourage my Senate colleagues who have shared my previous concerns to also support him.” Mr. Schumer is likely to have influence over many of his Senate colleagues, particularly Democrats, [...]
Obama Versus the Republican Right in Congress on the Debt Ceiling
In the event that Republicans make good on their threat by failing to act, or by moving unilaterally to pass a debt limit extension only as part of unbalanced or unreasonable legislation, we believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a [...]
Wayne LaPierre on “Meet the Press,” What Ugly Looks Like
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Well, I think he’s so extreme and so tone deaf that he actually helps the cause of us passing sensible gun legislation in the Congress. Look, he blames everything but guns: movies, the media, President Obama, gun-free school zones. You name it, and [...]
News Desk — Sen. Schumer: Social Security Should Not Be Part of Grand Bargain
Schumer says Social Security should not be part of the grand bargain…can be considered on the side — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) November 8, 2012 A REPORT from Sam Stein via Twitter lays it out from Senator Schumer. There’s a lot of pressure from many quarters, with people going to hold Democrats to this and make [...]
Chuck Schumer: Dump Simpson Bowles, It’s a “Tax Trap”
MUSIC TO my ears when Sen. Chuck Schumer’s speech started circulating. Schumer was talking about something Jared Bernstein has warned about too. The highlighted section from Sen. Schumer is the most important. “If upfront rate cuts are the starting point for negotiations on tax reform, it will box us in on what else we can [...]
Chaos at 9/11 Trial, Where the T-word Won’t Be Heard
**updated** We now know much about the brutal mistreatment of prisoners in secret prisons, inflicted according to specific legal guidance from Yoo and others in the Justice Department—although the Obama administration is shamefully still seeking to suppress the details, arguing that Guantanamo detainees should be barred even from discussing the facts in their public trials. [...]
Schumer Unveils Long Term Jobs Creation Bill
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Good news, I think. Senator Schumer has unveiled a jobs bill and Reid is promising to hold hearings and press to get it in any debt deal. Schumer includes many progressive ideas. Its high time the Senate pushed this: …as Republicans have focused on extracting deep [...]
Banks Lose A Big One, Thanks to Walmart (not kidding)
The Senate voted Wednesday to let the Federal Reserve slice the fees that stores must pay banks each time a customer swipes a debit card, handing merchants a victory over banks in a lobbying battle over billions in revenue. Senators supporting the financial institutions’ efforts to head off the proposal fell six voters short of [...]
John Boehner’s Oops
“Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they’ve got some part of this to blame,” the Ohio Republican told ABC News today. Blame aside, what about the cold, hard cash — the billions of dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies big oil receives every year? President Obama has proposed doing away [...]
Progressive Notes: Of Cookies and Cents.
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. I titled this post “Of Cookies and Cents.” Why? Well, let us first talk about some great cookies, Girl Scout Cookies. One of the great American treats sold by one of our greatest organizations for young women is under attack. By whom? The Tea folks, but [...]
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