Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
OBAMA CARE LIVES! (BUT FOR HOW LONG?). (Yahoo News) The Supreme Court delivers its long-awaited verdict on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In a 5-4 decision, conservative Chief Justice Roberts joins the “liberal” members of the Court in upholding virtually all of the law, including the controversial “individual mandate” to require everyone to [...]
Birth control as a hot button issue does not appear top be fading from the forefront of national debate in the near future, stoked by presidential politics and lawmakers eager to make their name in the defense of what some call “religous freedom,” and others deride as unconstitutional overreach. The so-called “culture wars” are storming back to [...]
Thanks to an aggressive lobbying campaign, American multinational corporations that have been sending their US profits overseas are about to be handed a major victory by Congress in what could amount to a massive tax cut that slashes corporate rates to just over 5 percent. Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and John McCain (R-AZ) have introduced [...]
Authorization for the U.S. military mission against Moammar Gaddafi and Libya was rejected in a floor vote of the House of Representatives on Friday, but a simultaneous effort to pull funding for the joint U.S./NATO intervention failed. The overall outcome was deemed “symbolic” by the New York Times. House Republicans lead by Speaker John Boehner [...]
$520 is a princely sum to pay for an hour’s worth of work. What kind of person would be due such a rich financial reward? The public employees, like firefighters and teachers, that are so roundly condemned by conservative politicians as overpaid and ungrateful? Of course not… How about an executive at one of the [...]
The rush to restrict spending on government safety nets took another lurch forward on Tuesday as Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH) for the first time expressed a willingness to put potentially massive cuts and changes to Social Security and Medicare “on the table” during budget negotiations with the White House. Boehner dodged [...]
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