The Social Contract, Explained by Elizabeth Warren,
Paul Krugman, and Robert Kuttner
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htX2usfqMEs&feature=player_embedded
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. . . . You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.”
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United We Stand, ...
A Cure for “The Silence of the Dems”
What kind of future can there be for a political party that defers all its speaking roles to a conflict-averse President who does not want to be too closely identified with his party? And what future for that party’s legacy of “social contract” programs—and the people who need them?
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“For ...
We’re Not Forgetting
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Except for posting this brief comment, we are among the millions of New Yorkers who are doing anything but “commemorating” the 10th anniversary. We are not reading the magazines’ special commemorative editions or watching the solemn and reverent broadcasts brought to you by our sponsors of ...
“Pass This Jobs Bill”
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“I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away. It’s called the American Jobs Act. There should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. Everything in here is the kind of proposal that’s been supported by both Democrats and Republicans—including many who ...
Go Big, Obama: Give Us a 10-Year Jobs Plan
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As Long as They’re Calling You a Socialist, Go All the Way
What does “Labor Day” mean to the 15+ million unemployed?
Below is our Happy Labor Day card to President Obama in advance of his address to the nation Thursday, Sept. 8, about proposals for alleviating the nation’s chronic ...
Dedra Johnson of ‘The G Bitch Spot’ Wins Rising Tide’s Ashley Award
Each year at the Rising Tide conference on the future of New Orleans the coveted Ashley Award, named in honor of the legendary, larger-than-life Ashley Morris,* is presented to a blogger who has made outstanding contributions to writing about post-Katrina New Orleans.
This year’s winner is ...
Live-Blogging from Rising Tide 6
A conference on the future of New Orleans
Xavier University, New Orleans
Tune in to webcast here. Rising Tide 6 main web site here, and RT6 blog here. Photos here, here, and here.
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Usually we worry that Rising Tide might be disrupted by a hurricane—after all, it’s held each year on the ...
Republicans Secretly (Seriously) Like the Stimulus
Begin here, President Obama: Create jobs by approving all G.O.P. requests for stimulus funds.
Here’s the best new idea we’ve heard in a long time (h/t to Rachel Maddow): When HuffPo’s Sam Stein reported that “Michele Bachmann Repeatedly Sought Stimulus, EPA, Other Government Funds,” Steve ...
A Heartland Question for the President
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd quotes a politely phrased but hard-hitting question put to the president last week by an Iowa voter, a mother named Emily who is an Obama supporter, during a town hall meeting with the good folks of Decorah, Iowa. Dowd notes that the president “seemed to ...
Rising Tide 6 Is August 27, So Register Today
A Conference on the Future of New Orleans
After a week of economy-strangling legislation in Congress, Wall Street plunges, and a downgrade of the nation’s credit rating, maybe you’re ready for some positive news? The Best Thing Happening—we’ll be there and we can hardly wait—is the 6th annual ...
What a Deal
Is This What “Winning the Future” Feels Like?
“Our enemies could not have designed a better plan to weaken the American economy than this debt-ceiling deal.”
—Joe Nocera, “Tea Party’s War on America” (see below)
“With all this incessant emphasis on deficit reduction, it’s going to be ...
Memo to White House: Time to Use the Constitutional Option
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It’s Time to End This Hostage Crisis
This has gone far enough. Whereas Speaker John Boehner has failed to persuade his own party in the House to support his proposed bill to lift the debt ceiling short-term—which the Senate and the President would have rejected anyway—and whereas there ...