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Two-Party Economic Betrayal of the Working Class: The Need for a Grassroots Progressive Campaign

Michele Swenson | Posted 04.05.2012

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Election year choices are increasingly disconnected from most people's lives, controlled by the Democratic-Republican duopoly in thrall to corporate megabucks that buy off government, and covered by corporate media like a horse race.

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Romney Campaign Uses 'Mediscare' Tactics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.12.2012

WASHINGTON -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign and a like-minded conservative group launched seemingly uncoordinated but highly tellin...

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Washington Needs to Call a Doctor

Dan Rather | Posted 04.17.2012

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If you want a simple shorthand for the dysfunction in Washington, D.C., I can do it in two words: Don Berwick.

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Congressional Leaders in Super Bowl Move Choose to Let Election Year Politics Burden Our Children

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.15.2012

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By coming to an agreement to extend the payroll tax cut, leaders from both political parties are destroying our children's future so they can keep their Congressional seats.

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Cantor Takes Unexpected Stance On Obama Nominee

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Lea...

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Key Medicare Figure Steps Aside

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — The point man for carrying out President Barack Obama's health care law will be stepping down after Republicans succeeded in blocki...

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Key Group Throws Support Behind New Obama Medicare Plan

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — An influential medical group's change of heart is boosting President Barack Obama's plan to use Medicare to promote higher quality,...

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Obama Administration Eyes Super Committee As 'Avenue' To Move Jobs Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2011

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Still searching for mechanisms to pass pieces of the president's jobs bill, senior administration officials returned on Thursday t...

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Super Committee Presentation Goes Over Required Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.26.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the congressional super committee have produced a "presentation" that would include a roughly equal mix of spending cuts an...

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Obama Debt Reduction Plan Calms Democrats' Concerns On And Off Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's broad new debt reduction proposal has, at least momentarily, managed to placate a community of progressive acti...

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President Obama Targets Providers, Then Beneficiaries For Medicare Savings

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama wants to extract $320 billion in savings from the health care system in his push to trim the deficit, starting with cutt...

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Obama Will Veto 'Super Congress' Plan That Cuts Medicare Without Raising Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will veto a comprehensive deficit reduction package if it includes cuts to entitlement program benefits but no ta...

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Obama Publicly Backs Means-Testing Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama formally acknowledged on Friday that he would support a plan to means-test Medicare as a part of a deal to raise ...

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Progressives Protesting Obama Over Medicare, Social Security Cuts

Posted 09.13.2011

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A progressive activist group is preparing to protest at President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, demanding that he refuse to cut what they vie...

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Rep. Nadler On Obama's Medicare Proposal: 'There Won't Be Any Democratic Votes For That'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's vision of a grand deal on raising the nation's debt ceiling may have been scrapped by a skittish Speaker John Boehner ...

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Obama Offered To Raise Medicare Eligibility Age As Part Of Grand Debt Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In his press conference on Monday morning, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that he was willing to tackle some sacred cows as...

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Democrats Consider Offering Medicare Provider Cuts In Exchange For Revenue Increases

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) decision on Thursday to leave ongoing debt ceiling negotiations seemed to bring those talks to...

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Obama's Pledge To House Dems: He Won't Extend High-End Bush Tax Cuts Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a meeting with House Democrats on Thursday, President Obama stressed that his administration would draw a firm line on taxes and reve...

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Ryan Says His Plan Repeals The 'Raid' Obama Made To Medicare. It Doesn't

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Besieged by attacks over House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, Republican lawmakers are amplifying their message th...

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Despite Differences, Obama, GOP Eye Medicare Limit

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.09.2011

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WASHINGTON — Unlikely as it may seem, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress actually share some common ground on the need to curb M...

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Obama Paints Rising Republican Star As GOP Face For 2012

McClatchy | Steven Thomma | Posted 06.25.2011

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Eager to start campaigning for re-election next year, President Barack Obama isn't waiting for the Republican Party to nominate a rival. He's running ...

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Obama Administration Looks To Ease Pain Of Medicare Cuts

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 06.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most co...

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Touch of Class

Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.17.2011

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President Obama did two things in his address at George Washington University that he has been loath to do throughout his presidency. He spoke like a progressive partisan. And he spoke of the injuries of class.

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Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution

Robert Reich | Posted 06.13.2011

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I hope when he tells America how he aims to tame future budget deficits the president doesn't accept conventional Washington wisdom that the biggest problem in the federal budget is Medicare.

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Obama and the Budget Civil War

Howard Fineman | Posted 06.12.2011

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If President Obama thinks Medicare is essential to our Union, he had better make the case convincingly. If he does, Republicans may decide that Private Ryan is not worth following into battle. If he doesn't, say goodbye to Medicare as we know it.

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