I blogged on the opening slide of the Catfood Commission Co-Chairs’ Proposal just a couple of days ago, so when I checked out BillyBlog, as I do almost everyday, last night, I was particularly pleased that a part of his great post was devoted to the same slide I commented on. I’d like to dialogue […]
Entries from November 2010
Bill Mitchell on the Co-Chairs’ Proposal
November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Bill Mitchell on the Co-Chairs’ Proposal
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Constitutional Crisis Over Debt Ceiling? Does the Government Have To Shut Down?
November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Constitutional Crisis Over Debt Ceiling? Does the Government Have To Shut Down?
Recently, my friend Marshall Auerback posted an article at New Deal 2.0 about Obama’s coming “teachable moment” when the Republicans try to wring concessions out of the Democrats by refusing to raise the ceiling on the national debt. The post stimulated a lot of good discussion about alternatives Obama might have to shutting down the […]
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Take Out the Catfood Commission and Get On to the Real Work
November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Take Out the Catfood Commission and Get On to the Real Work
This is the first of a number of posts on the Catfood Commission’s latest travesty: the Co-Chair’s Proposal. The proposal begins with statements about “Our Guiding Principles and Values.” I’ll analyze the first page in this statement of principles in this post. 1.We have a patriotic duty to come together on a plan that will […]
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Cenk’s Post-election Rant
November 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on Cenk’s Post-election Rant
Cenk Uygur provides us with this very much to the point post-election rant. I couldn’t agree more. But the question is the messaging on it. People who want to change things, whether Dems or otherwise, need to frame things as solutions to problems, while only voting for solutions that will really work. For example, the […]
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