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Hometown: Rockville, MD
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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone on Health Care

By David Sirota
November 21st, 2008

I don't know about you, but to me it feels pretty 1993 of late. more »

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VIDEO: HHS Chief Daschle Says States Will Play Major Role In Health Care Reform

By David Sirota
November 20th, 2008

There's been something of a debate about whether a universal health care system will come only from Washington, D.C., or whether it will involve state governments. more »

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Wash Post Re-Floats Possibility of Lame-Duck NAFTA Expansion

By David Sirota
November 20th, 2008

Glenn Greenwald long ago taught us why we should always look skeptically at the fact-free prognostications of the Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein. more »

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Mandate Watch: "Team of Rivals" Or Rival Team?

By David Sirota
November 19th, 2008

A quick lexicographic note: Seems to me the term "Team of Rivals" is the new euphemism for "bipartisanship," which unto itself has always been a synonym for "buypartisanship" (ie. bipartisan corporatism) and "Broderism" (the principle, championed by Washington Post columnist David Broder, that bipartisanship is an inherent virtue regardless of what it is in pursuit of). more »

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Free Fall

By Robert Borosage
November 19th, 2008

"The era of big government is over" is over. A major recovery program—featuring substantial public investment—will be inevitably the first initiative of the Obama administration. It should feature more spending than tax cuts—investing in renewable energy and conservation, in rebuilding everything from schools to bridges to a smart electric gird, in helping cities and states avoid crippling cuts of services, in keeping college affordable, providing health care to children, and aiding those most in need.

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Mandate Watch: NAFTA Reform? Psych!

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

What do you do after a huge number of new swing-district Democrats win office promising to reform NAFTA? Apparently, if you are D.C. Democrats, you do this: more »

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Were Democrats Elected With a Mandate to Attack "The Left?"

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

Seems to me that House and Senate leaders have declared an all-out war on "the Left." In fact, "seems" is the wrong word. It doesn't "seem" like that. They are actually saying it explicitly. more »

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The Big Heist

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

In the slapstick classic Funny Farm, Chevy Chase ends up writing a novel called The Big Heist which is so bad - so painfully, terribly awful - that he ends up going insane and burning it in front of his horrified wife. more »

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Citigroup To Cut 50,000 Jobs

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November 17th, 2008
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mayfield.co.nz — Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince resigned with a reported payoff package worth $US 38 million after the company was forced to write down billions of dollars of mortgage backed assets accumulated under his directorship. Latest reports put the figure at a staggering $US 64 Billion.

It is unlikely those laid off will receive similar severance deals.

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Fearing Rejection, Bush Backs Off Bailout Request

By David Sirota
November 17th, 2008

Per my post earlier today, this is huge news if it holds: more »

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