Editors' Blog
Video: Voices of the unemployed
Why we need to pass the President's tax/unemployment comp extension framework quick:
Reckless GOP Obstructionism Means No Easy Choices
The following is a few days old, but it still makes sense.
Lenin on Strange and Monstrous
Written: February 28, 1918First Published: Pravda Nos. 37 and 38, February 28 and March 1, 1918; Izvestia VTsIK No. 43, March 8, 1918 published according to the Pravda text.Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 27, 1972, pp. 68-75Translated: Clemans Dutt, Edited by Robert Daglish
Judge with ties to Palin/GOP candidates rules health reform unconstitutional
After two other judges ruled health reform constitutional, Henry E. Hudson, a federal judge in Virginia, who has just ruled against the law seems to financial ties to Sarah Palin and numerous other Republican Party bosses who campaigned against or voted against health reform.
Unemployment/tax deal
Rather than an extensive essay on the subject, I propose to present these arguments as bullet points for ease of reading – and of course your criticism:1.
IMHO: Can the left offer a real alternative?
IMHO -- if you really recommend voting no on the tax deal, you need to have a practical, immediate alternative to the immediate impacts on unemployment, and tax rises for workers that will otherwise take place.
Guest blog: Response to congressional opposition to the tax deal
So where was all of this opposition during the Bush administration? How come these democrats can stand firm against Obama and were hardly heard when Bush was president? Why didn't Bernie Sanders and other progressive stalwarts stage some drama against the original tax cut legislation or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? And why are the tax cuts for the wealthy the only issue when around 3 million need unemployment benefits? 3 million people represents a lot of people with large political and economic implications.
Progressives and the tax deal
This piece by author Ishmael Reed in the New York Times (which I rarely read) looks at the privileged position of progressives who've attacked President Obama on the tax deal:
Marxists and Marmots
How often do we hear that socialism sounds like a good idea but it doesn't work in practice because of human nature.
President Obama on GOP "holy grail"
From today's White House press conference:
