- “There is zero chance that the senate in the foreseeable future will enact a lower majority, and doing so will”
Posted on Pulling Teeth November 25, 2009 9:46 PM - “A STET (Securities Transaction Exchange Tax) is a great idea, and could be broadened as an idea to be applied”
Posted on "Financial Transactions Tax" Comes before "Value-Added Tax" November 15, 2009 12:36 AM - “I agree that these hamstringing measures are awful and that states need MASSIVE infusions of many tens of billions more”
Posted on Grover Norquist and Anti-Tax Movement Big Loser of the Night November 7, 2009 4:21 AM - “One problem is the POLITICS of the 2d stimulus. As I gather, it should have at least several major elements,”
Posted on How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He Must November 7, 2009 4:17 AM - “The really galling aspect of the whole federalism issue is the cherry-picking hypocrisy of the RW on the issue. How”
Posted on Nullification (complete with bonus Wilson-Thurmond update) September 13, 2009 6:14 AM - “Idiot me -- I thought that chipotle peppers themselves (eg the chipotle sauce at Chili's that I should never have”
Posted on Chipotle- Now 64% Better as They Increase Payments to Tomato Pickers September 12, 2009 3:41 AM - “I have long felt -- as a supporter of single-payer -- that employer mandates were problematic. First of all, it”
Posted on Why the Employer Mandate Matters September 12, 2009 3:34 AM - “In case anyone might have been confused by anything in my comment -- what I despise about Andrew Stern is”
Posted on No "Left Without Labor" August 25, 2009 2:01 PM - “The point is that there is the matter of 'getting with the program and justifying the lying' ie "the facts”
Posted on No "Left Without Labor" August 24, 2009 3:00 PM - “SUGGESTION It appears at this point that a health plan even acceptable to pragmatic progressives (as I consider myself to”
Posted on Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us August 22, 2009 11:50 AM - “Wickning begins the right kind of analysis for serious understanding of this. The point is that people don't necessarily listen”
Posted on Poll: Republicans Think Government Should Stay Out Of Medicare August 19, 2009 2:42 PM - “The logic of your position, Dr Reich, is that it is the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION we should be pressuring, and not”
Posted on The Public Option's Last Stand, and the Public's August 17, 2009 2:22 PM - “The key is that, even assuming that politicians in the mainstream of the Democratic Party really wanted to serve public”
Posted on TPMDC Sunday Roundup August 16, 2009 3:30 PM - “I am reminded of how C Wright Mills, disgusted, responded to a number of his mainstream liberal critics (insisting that”
Posted on Progress: From "Questionable" to "False" August 14, 2009 8:50 PM - “It is of ESPECIAL significance the Sestak is running as strong as or stronger than Specter against Toomey. This is”
Posted on Rasmussen: Toomey Now Leads Specter, Sestak In Statewide Poll August 13, 2009 11:23 AM - “even though the situation, to pardon the vernacular, SUCKS, couldn't a major second stimulus package, including ALL of the money”
Posted on The New Employment Numbers: Things are Worsening More Slowly August 8, 2009 2:55 AM - “Several questions: wouldn't substantially raising taxes on the highest income brackets help to RESTORE charitable giving especially once the rich”
Posted on Why the Obama Administration Will Struggle to Reduce Poverty August 8, 2009 2:47 AM - “some progressive(s) in Congress should introduce a measure to RESTORE the funding for alternative energy and find some other way”
Posted on TPMDC Morning Roundup August 6, 2009 10:21 AM - “Yeah it's legal -- it's called "LYING"”
Posted on Tea Baggers Team With Freedom Works To Target Blue Dogs In Anti-Health Care Push August 5, 2009 3:00 AM - “Actually, it would be good to at least make it stricter -- so that only reasonably fuel efficient cars would”
Posted on Poll: Public Opposes Extension Of Cash For Clunkers August 5, 2009 2:59 AM - “Hatch has ALWAYS been a creep. The NY Times and other mainstream media have treated him as a statesman and”
Posted on TPMDC Morning Roundup August 3, 2009 12:19 PM - “Speaking of a "shred of intellectual honesty", I find this gratuitous slashing at the columnist to be disingenuous. Obviously, the”
Posted on Decline of the American Empire August 1, 2009 1:45 PM - “Several things First, we need statehood for New Columbia and the time is now. I know that it won't actually”
Posted on The Tyranny of the Tiny White States July 28, 2009 8:07 PM - “A few questions and thoughts First, other than Baucus & the two Senators from Maine, which are the key senators”
Posted on The Future of Universal Health Care, as of Now July 27, 2009 1:33 AM - “It would be interesting to find the correlation of particular senators who are BOTH whining about the costs of having”
Posted on Obamacare Is At War With Itself Over Future Costs July 21, 2009 6:46 AM - “Well it's one of the classic paradoxes of the politics of capitalism -- which is why I've been a socialist”
Posted on Goldman and JPMorgan -- The Two Winners When The Rest of America is Losing July 17, 2009 9:14 PM - “Just as it is well nigh impossible to effectively make the nuanced judgment calls of tactics on the ground for”
Posted on What's Left Without Card Check? July 17, 2009 9:02 PM - “To draw up progressive policies, in the context of policymaking if progressives really are in the saddle of power (something”
Posted on On the non-worthlessness of economists and their ilk July 16, 2009 9:04 AM - “Two issues -- financing and a serious and genuine public option, the latter the kind that obviously the blue-nosed Democrats”
Posted on The Health Care Clock, and Why Obama Has to Act Quickly July 14, 2009 11:16 PM - “As for taxes to pay for the health program -- what about something I have written about repeatedly and at”
Posted on TPMDC Sunday Roundup July 12, 2009 2:27 PM
