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CREDO Mobile If you Google, “David Brooks, who has never been right about anything,” you get about 9,730,000 hits. Today, Brooks and Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner, both write about Tim Geithner’s performance. Who do you believe?
Source: www.nytimes.com
Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.
CREDO Mobile Now this is a hopeful headline! The modern tea party movement, an unwitting front group for anti-Obama corporate interests, stole a proud name in American revolutionary history to serve their anti-everything movement.
Source: www.politico.com
The movement's internal squabblinghas some members fearful that it will disintegrate.
CREDO Mobile On this day in 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born. He was a tireless advocate for justice and gave one of the best speeches in U.S. history on the death of Martin Luther King -- just two months before he himself would be assassinated.
Source: www.rfkcenter.org
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers ...
CREDO Mobile We'll spare you Sarah Palin's smiling face. (Surely you like that!) But here's a must-read from Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: 10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nominatio
Source: www.fivethirtyeight.com
1. Enthusiasm. People tend to see electorate through a one-dimensional lens, in which a fixed number of voters are trying to decide between two or more candidates. But that's not really how politics works, especially in primaries. ...
CREDO Mobile On this day in history, President Lincoln redefined the goal of the Civil War to be the pursuit of human equality.
Source: www.findingdulcinea.com
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a speech that redefined the meaning of the Civil War.
CREDO Mobile Want to know what Big Oil really thinks? Check out this ad from 1962 by a company that grew up to be Exxon.
Source: www.grist.org
Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine, available on Google Books (click for larger versi...
CREDO Mobile This takes courage. In Arkansas, no less.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
"I've grown up with a lot of people and I'm good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and I'm not going to swear that they do," the ten-year-old Phillips said.
CREDO Mobile We want our money back. Basically, an independent inspector general concluded that the New York Federal Reserve, led by Timothy Geithner, did not use its considerable bargaining leverage and unnecessarily sent billions of our dollars to 16 giant banks, using AIG. The truth is painful, but better that than more deception.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The New York Fed paid AIG's business partners face value for securities so they would cancel insurance-like contracts AIG had written.
CREDO Mobile In a controversial article, Bill McKibben asserts President Obama isn't doing enough to stop climate change. What do you think?
Source: www.grist.org
President Obama has, at least for now, punted on the hard questions around climate.
CREDO Mobile Hooray? Taxpayers are no longer going to subsidize the infamous townhouse where Senator Ensign lived during his affair, and where Bart Stupak and Tom Coburn still live.
Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.
CREDO Mobile Finally - Sen. Reid demands and gets a judge approved despite attempted filibuster. One of the key criticisms of the judge? He spent one month in 1979, after graduating from college, doing door to door canvassing for ACORN.
Source: thinkprogress.org
Overcoming a failed filibuster attempt by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Senate voted 70-29 this evening to end debate on President Obama’s first nominee to the federal bench, clearing Judge David ...
CREDO Mobile 106,745 and counting. That's how many coat hangers we're sending to the 20 nominally pro-choice Democrats -- all men -- who voted for the Stupak amendment. Help us spread the word by sharing this campaign on Facebook.
Source: act.credoaction.com
Did 20 pro-choice Democrats forget what happens when women are denied access to abortion? Sign our petition and we'll send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats who voted to take away women's rights.
CREDO Mobile Happy Birthday, Howard Dean! Our friend Howard Dean brought hundreds of thousands of new activists into the movement with his focus on bottom-up, people-powered politics. The organization he founded, Democracy for America, is one of CREDO's best allies in the fight for health care reform.
Source: democracyforamerica.com
Democracy for America is our nation's largest progressive political action community. With over one million members nationwide, DFA is a grassroots powerhouse working to change our country and the Democratic Party from the bottom-up.
CREDO Mobile Sometimes the NY Times tells some of the untold undercurrents of health care reform - like the role of Genentech lobbyists writing speeches for dozens of elected officials. One of our favorite blogs - firedoglake.com - reveals that one of the key lobbyists was a key staffer for Rep. Eshoo, who got a special interest provision included in health care reform. Put more stories like this on the front page of the Times!
Source: www.nytimes.com
More than a dozen lawmakers’ statements on the health care debate were ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech, a biotechnology company.
CREDO Mobile No more mister nice Democrat. Harry Reid shouldn't let a "threat" of a filibuster hold up the health care bill. If Republicans want to block a bill make them stay on the floor of the Senate 24-7.
Source: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
"If the Republicans want to stay here this Saturday and Sunday to read the bill, then let them stay here," he said. "We are planning to do something that would require Republicans to be there 24 hours a day, and if they leave the floor, we'll ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading, and t...
