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How not to sell a tax cut
Putting Dubya on center stage is bad, bad mojo. For some reason, the RNC thought this CNBC article would be a good thing to forward around to media on Thursday. Unfortunately, it contains a number of...
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The new American victimhood
Who will come to the aid of the oppressed, huddled masses of Wall Street? America needs a new civil rights movement. Apparently, white conservatives and Wall Street are being horribly oppressed, by...
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The Democrats can’t win the midterms, but Barack Obama can do it for them
Frank Rich’s column is a must-read today (as it usually is.) He agrees with me, it turns out, that the bleatings of the punditocracy aside, all is not lost for Democrats in November, if their best...
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Senate Republicans’ plan: borrow $4 trillion from China for CEO tax cuts
Give that man a tax cut! (And that'll be $4 trillion dollars!) The Senate GOP has unveiled its genius plan to fix the economy: double the deficit, borrow $3.9 trillion from china, slash the estate tax,...
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Republican self-delusion on tax cuts: their message vs. the president’s
Now that we’ve all accepted the inevitable deal on tax cuts, let’s move on to the messaging. The Republican choice? Self-delusion, as the party ignores the myriad polls showing the public is not on...
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Tuesday clicks: the whiny, crying babies of Wall Street
For Wall Street bankers, getting a trillion-dollar bailout AND boffo bonuses, even during the Great Recession, and then getting two more years of obscene tax cuts as a reward for tanking the global...
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Does big business act in the national interest? Obama’s Chamber speech and...
Will the Wall Street robber barons let the tea party destroy their dividend fortunes? Tick tock... President Obama’s speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has generated a lot of discussion this week,...
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Wall St. vs Main Street: House GOP pushing to roll back Wall Street reform,...
House Republicans are leaving no doubt whose interests they’re serving on Capitol Hill. When they’re not inventing new ways to restrict abortion or whining that the White House refuses to put forward...
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House bill would cut off food stamps to striking workers’ families;...
Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York, where a fire killed 146 workers in 1911. The push to drive America back into the Robber Baron era has kicked into overdrive, as Republican...
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The Wall Street party, trapped in the madhouse
Wall Street and big business bankrolled the tea party in order to put tax cut and deregulation-friendly Republicans in control of Washington. Now, they’re reaping the whirlwind. When you’re looking...
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