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Afghanistan: Momentum For Withdrawal
Ben ArmbrusterThe Progress ReportJune 21, 2011When President Obama announced in December 2009 a surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan, he made it clear that those troops would begin to withdraw...
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The Clarence Thomas Scandal
Ian MillhiserThe Progress ReportJune 22, 2011In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas resigned in disgrace after the nation learned that he had accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from corporate...
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The GOP’s Budget Blame Game
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress ReportsJune 23, 2011Republicans Take Their Ball and Go HomeVice President Joe Biden has been leading negotiations among a bipartisan group of lawmakers to hammer out a...
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The GOP’s Plan for (Un)Shared Sacrifice
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress ReportJune 24, 2011What the GOP Really Means by ‘Shared Sacrifice’Yesterday, we covered the GOP’s temper tantrum, as the New York Times called it, in which Republican...
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Sarah Palin "Trademark": The Backlash
The Week25 June 11t looks like Alaska's most famous politician will get her name trademarked after all. Cue the mockery!Sarah Palin took some ribbing earlier this year for failing to sign an...
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Marriage Equality: After New York, What Now For The GOP?
Amanda Peterson BeadleProgress Reports/ThinkProgressJune 27, 2011 After the 33rd “yes” vote was counted in New York’s Senate Friday night, it was momentous not in the least because the Legislature had...
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Karl Rove’s $20 MILLION Distraction
Josh DornerProgress Reports/ThinkProgressJune 28, 2011Don’t Forget–The GOP United Behind Plan to End Medicare, Give More Tax Breaks to Big Oil, BillionairesLate last Friday, Karl Rove’s attack group,...
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Nothing To Show For It
JM AshbyBob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!06/29/2011Artist – Mike KeefeIn other news, a new poll shows that Governor Rick Perry would lose his home state of Texas in a matchup against President Obama, and...
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Like A Business
JM AshbyBob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!06/30/2011Artist – Jeff ParkerIn other news, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a bill this week to bring back gold and...
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Happy Birthday Medicare!
ThinkProgress War Room June 30, 2011Fast Facts on MedicareTomorrow marks the 45th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare (July 1, 1966), following President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the...
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GOP Versus Itself On Default
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress ReportsJuly 1, 2011In Their Own Words: Republicans Explain Why We Must Not DefaultThe Treasury Department confirmed once again this afternoon that Aug. 2 is the...
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Horses Versus Health Care
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress Reports|Think ProcessJuly 5, 2011GOP Tax Giveaway of the Day: Mitch McConnell’s Bluegrass BoondoggleAs the Aug. 2 deadline for resolving the default crisis nears, we will...
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Tea Party Already Looking To Purge Their New Congress Members For Having The...
Susie MadrakCrooks and LiarsJuly 05, 2011I've known some really good politicians in my time, people who really knew how to hammer out coalitions and get things done. It wasn't always pretty, of course,...
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The GOP Plays With Fire, We All Get Burned
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress Report|ThinkProgressJuly 8, 2011Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Like Jobs)Determining the precise reasons behind today’s extremely dismal jobs report (only 18,000 net jobs...
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Informed ?
Bruce PlanteBroadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania!Saturday, July 9, 2011http://www.broadwaycarl.com/2011/07/must-reads_09.htmlCopyright 2011 Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania!
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What class warfare really looks like
Dee Dee MyersPOLITICOJuly 11, 2011Here we go again. Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry “class warfare!”The latest...
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Why the U.S. Government Needs to Investigate News Corp
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress Reports/Think ProgressJuly 13, 2011Why This Scandal MattersFor more than a week now, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent company of Fox News, among many other...
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Michele's Bridge to Nowhere
JHW22Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania!Friday, July 15, 2011Republicans like to say Obama is three years into his Presidency, so using their math, Michele Bachmann is one year into the new Congress -- the...
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Bad News For Republicans
JM AshbyBob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!07/18/2011According to a new CBS poll released today:71% of respondents disapproved of Republicans’ handling of the debt talks, with only 21% approving.But beyond...
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The GOP’s New-Old Plan to Destroy Medicare & Social Security
ThinkProgress War RoomProgress Report/ThinkProgressJuly 19, 2011A Sneak Attack on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Everything ElseWe are now frighteningly close to a default on our obligations...
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