Social Security

This is old, but I just stumbled across it on WashingtonMonthly: In every industrial Democracy since the end of World War II, there has been a social contract between the few and the many. In return for receiving a disproportionate amount of the…

Jack Shafer, unlike me, sees no problem with Fox News demanding its hosts stop using the phrase Public Option: The call to refer to the program as the government option instead of the public option came from Republican pollster Frank Luntz, Media…

Keith Hennessey, who worked on Economic Policy in George W. Bush's White House, supports the tax Compromise: Unlike many Congressional Republicans, I support extending extended Unemployment Insurance benefits when the Unemployment Rate is th…

We Didn't Think Of That by digby Dear God. Some of these people must be either criminally inept or crudely malevolent. There is no other choice: Q So the only reason that the Payroll Tax holiday will provide more stimulus is because it’s …

WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday thwarted Democratic efforts to award $250 checks to Social Security recipients facing a second consecutive year without a cost-of-living increase. President Barack Obama and Democrats …

Ever since the 2008 Presidential Campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era Tax Cuts for all but the Richest 2 percent of Americans. His reasoning: the rich have fared spectacularly well over the past quarter cent…

WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday thwarted Democratic efforts to award $250 checks to Social Security recipients facing a second consecutive year without a cost-of-living increase. President Barack Obama and Democrats …

Yesterday, President Obama gave a combative response to criticism he's been receiving from the left for his proposed deal with Republicans to extend both the middle and upper Income Tax cuts. Sounding a note that resembled his rebuke to neoconse…