Boehner Proposes Desperate New Debt Plan

JULY 29TH, 2011

Boehner Proposes Desperate New Debt Plan That Involves "Unrealistic" Plan to Change the Constitution
By Joan McCarter | Daily Kos
Jon Stewart on What the GOP's Movie Clip Says to the Tea Party: Your Single-Minded Mania Will Be Your Downfall
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
The GOP Has Threatened Our Infrastructure Funds, So Get Ready to Crumble
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Obama Again Asks Americans to Pressure Congress on Debt Ceiling
By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
The Economy Is Going Down the Toilet, But it Doesn't Have to Be This Way (Hear That, Republicans?)
By Steve Benen | Washington Monthly
The Benefits of Card Check: H&M Stores in New York Go Union
By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet
How Shadowy Right-Wing Front Groups Engineered Our National Embrace of Debt Reduction Over Job Creation
By Lee Fang | ThinkProgress
NC Anti-Abortion Measures Will Become Law, Despite Governor's Efforts to Stop Them
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Delusional, Evil, and Stupid: The GOP Is a Mess on Debt Limit Vote Because of Education Funding?
By David Atkins | Hullabaloo
Antiwar Activists Explain "Why I Will Be There," at October Occupation of D.C.'s Freedom Plaza
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Why China is Laughing All the Way to the Bank At Our Debt Ceiling Drama
By Joe Conason | AlterNet

_PROGRESSIVE WIRE
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British comedian convicted of Murdoch pie assault
By Agence France Presse
17K low-income Colorado households will lose energy assistance benefits
By David O. Williams | Washington Independent
Raquel Nelson and the Aggressive Prosecutions of Black Mothers
By Julianne Hing | ColorLines
Careful What You Pray For, Texas
By Truthdig
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