Blog Archive: July, 2009


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House Adds $2 Billion to Cash for Clunkers

By Marcy Wheeler
July 31, 2009

The House just put another $2 billion into the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers program; presumably, the Senate will follow suit before they leave today. read more »

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Democrats Need To Wake Up and Regulate CEO Pay

By Mike Elk
July 31, 2009

A report released by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sheds light on big bank practices that have to be reined in: doling out huge bonuses while profits plummeted. read more »

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Toyota Plant: The Competition Is With Canada (and Mexico)

By Marcy Wheeler
July 31, 2009

I've been meaning to cover the likely closure of the joint Toyota-GM plant in Fremont, Calif., for some time. But this comment from DiFi is worth a post in itself.

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Progressive Breakfast: Progressive Wheaties Edition

By Bill Scher
July 31, 2009

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day.

House Progressives Stand Up To Blue Dogs read more »

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Health Insurance Exchanges: Better United Than Divided

By Timothy Jost
July 31, 2009

A Working Health Insurance Exchange Must be Federally-Run, Not State-Run

• Exchanges organize the health insurance market, creating large risk pools, making it less costly and easier to compare and choose health insurance. read more »

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Free-Market Conservatives Are Just Wrong

By Dave Johnson
July 31, 2009

There are things you can see in front of your face, and then there are things that conservative “free market” ideologues tell you. read more »

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Progressive Push-Back On Health Care Reform

By Isaiah J. Poole
July 30, 2009

The Progressive Caucus and its allies are holding a press conference this afternoon to emphasize their bottom line on health care: If it doesn't have a strong public option, it does not get their vote. read more »

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Firing Back on the Birthers: Where's Their Evidence?

By Sara Robinson
July 30, 2009

Amid the huge media pile-on that's gradually taking down the Birther fantasy, nobody's actually bothered to point out that almost every element of their argument is based on a near-total ignorance about how U.S. citizenship works.

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The Debtor's Dance: the U.S.-China Exchange

By Robert Borosage
July 30, 2009

Obama's opening speech set the stakes: "The relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century, which makes it as important as any bilateral relationship in the world." (emphasis added) The U.S., the world's largest debtor, met this week with the confident leaders of its largest creditor, the communist government of China.

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Progressive Breakfast: Is Health Care Reform a "Done Deal"?

By Terrance Heath
July 30, 2009

Call it a call it a breakthrough, or call it a betrayal (and it will be called many things during the next month or so), but a deal has been made on Capitol Hill, concerning health care reform. Whether it's a "done deal" or not depends on what happens between now and September.

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