Isaiah J. Poole

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Isaiah J. Poole
Hometown: Washington, DC
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  • Published Chasing the Rainbow: Can We Capture It? (Blog entry)
    May 16, 2008 - 10:02am

    What would it take to build a "rainbow coalition" that unites people across race and class lines around a progressive agenda for change? Let's have a conversation.

  • Published Do Conservatives Really Want to Shed the "Block-and-Blame" Label? (Blog entry)
    May 15, 2008 - 10:41am

    It is, as our co-director Robert Borosage pointed out this week, ludicrous on its face.

  • Published Living Standards Under Stress (Blog entry)
    May 14, 2008 - 10:50am

    It does not take much to understand why a hard-core Republican district in Mississippi would elect a Democrat to the House of Representatives by a nine-point margin. Mississippi is a state under particularly serious economic stress, a point brought home in a report released this week by the Campaign for America's Future.

  • Published Conservatism Collapses in the Emergency Room (Blog entry)
    May 8, 2008 - 11:13am

    Sen. John McCain and the Bush administration should be taken to task for failing to address one of the most critical failings of our health care system: our overstressed urban hospitals.

  • Published Let's Bank On Rebuilding America (Blog entry)
    May 6, 2008 - 10:48am

    Instead of a silly argument over a "gas tax holiday," we desperately need a serious discussion about the nation's infrastructure. And there is a good legislative proposal that could be the basis for that discussion.

  • Shared NAFTA-Type Deals Sour Public on Free Trade (Public Pulse)
    May 5, 2008 - 8:57pm

    Forty-eight percent of the people responding to an April 2008 Pew Research Center poll said that free trade agreements are a bad thing for the country, compared with 35 percent who call them a good thing.

  • Shared Rebate Checks: Stimulus for Lenders (Fast Fact)
    April 28, 2008 - 1:36pm

    As much as 60 percent of the $107 billion in rebates being sent to individuals and families starting this week as part of the Bush administration's economic stimulus plan will be used to pay down debt, according to a survey by Goldman Sachs.

  • Shared John McCain's Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina (Progressive Opinion)
    April 25, 2008 - 11:00am

    Lamenting the pace of recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, John McCain promised, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country." But McCain's record suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution.

  • Published The Time for Inaction Tour (Blog entry)
    April 24, 2008 - 10:55am

    Katrina-Still-Here-crop.jpgThe conservative war against the war on poverty continues as Arizona Sen. John McCain goes to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. He calls his tour of communities where the failures of conservatism have had their most graphic impact the "It's Time for Action Tour." But the only real action on this tour is on behalf of the benefactors of a failed conservative ideology.

    • Rick Perlstein uncovers the video that puts McCain's New Orleans speech in context. ALSO: Read and comment on Mother Jones' breakdown of McCain's record on Katrina.

    • Bill Scher adds that maybe we don't want McCain taking any action.

  • Published Let's Get Real Economic Stimulus (Blog entry)
    April 22, 2008 - 9:19am

    It's now more clear than ever that the so-called economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year is inadequate. It is now time to demand that Congress get to work on finishing the job by passing a second economic stimulus package in the coming weeks—and do it on its own merits, without falling into the trap of linking its passage to more funding for the war in Iraq.

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