Dick Durbin: Sacrificing Social Security, Recovery?
Now that the debt ceiling crisis is behind us, it's time to take a look at Senator Durbin's role in shifting the debate away from the jobs crisis and legitimizing attacks on Social Security.
Now that the debt ceiling crisis is behind us, it's time to take a look at Senator Durbin's role in shifting the debate away from the jobs crisis and legitimizing attacks on Social Security.
Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011
Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact ...
Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011
There's talk these days of the New Normal, but it sounds like a cover for the Old Status Quo. Proponents of this want us to believe it all boils down to what we can afford. Champions of the New Possible know it's more about what we value.
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Last week, Social Security advocates learned something they had long suspected. Arguments for cutting Social ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
The same conservatives who spent the past year senselessly screaming about the U.S. budget deficit are now demanding an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
Former CEO of Lehman Bros. convenes a fiscal summit for aggressive cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits. In a hard times economy, we need to protect Social Security's future.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
Brit Hume of FOX News once compared Iraq's murder rate to California's to downplay the level of American casualties because the two places are similar...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
Clinton told Taylor Branch about an interview with Rolling Stone's William Greider: "I did everything but fart in his face." The revelation about Clinton's interaction with Greider isn't groundbreaking, but it is telling.
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011
When I heard Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), floating the idea of a tax on health benefits in order to raise revenue for health care reform, I was baffled; how could this be?
Harry Hanbury | Posted 05.25.2011
As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.
Curtis Black | Posted 10.09.2011