New Orleans For five years whenever I’ve been asked for advice from various national campaigns whether immigration reform or healthcare or living wages or whatever, when it’s come to how to move President Obama, I’ve always argued, don’t lobby, don’t email, don’t tweet, point all the heat you can generate directly at him. His record …
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Syria and Summers Prove the Power of No
New Orleans The progressive forces can suddenly count coup on the Obama Administration over two issues in the matter of recent weeks for both economic progressives and anti-war advocates. The irony of having a Nobel Peace Prize winning President caught in a web of his own weaving and left with only military options in …
Counting the Votes against Larry Summers at the Federal Reserve
New Orleans Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration. The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the United Nations Security Council or a majority of the G-20 largest industrial countries to back military strikes in that country to protest with …