Tell The Senate: Stand With Students. Not Sarah Palin's Big Bank Buddies.

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 12:55 PM PST

2010/02/09 · 12:55

Click here to the tell the Senate: end the $80 billion subsidy to the big banks and pass student loan reform.

Right now, we taxpayers give big banks billions to subsidize their student loans. Giving big banks money is decidedly unpopular after the TARP bailout, among liberals and conservatives. So you'd think there would be consensus to end the subsidies.

Apparently not.

After the House passed President Obama's proposal to end the subsidies, offer students direct government loans and save taxpayers $80 billion, the Senate has the bill in limbo while bank lobbyists swarm the Capitol.

And now, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party is taking all their anti-bank populist rhetoric, and using it to support ... the banks.

BillScher

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 9:12 AM PST

2010/02/03 · 09:12

The Senate leadership appears to be on the verge of proposing a jobs package significantly smaller than the $154B bill that has cleared the House, even though everybody agrees even the House bill is not big enough to reverse the 7 million jobs already lost in the recession.

It is urgent that your Senators hear the call for a real jobs bill. Click here to tell the Senate: JOBS NOW!

BillScher

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 7:36 PM PDT

2007/10/04 · 19:36

Conservatives are on notice! As the House prepares to vote on whether to override Bush’s veto of children’s health insurance, America’s kids are sending a message to conservatives: No health care for us? Then, no photo ops for you! Check out the new video from Campaign for America’s Future below, then click here to send your own message to your Representative.

House conservatives are really nervous about this vote. Most voters in both parties want kids to have health insurance. Unlike Bush, House members are up for re-election next year, and sustaining the veto is indefensible. But they don’t have to defend it unless we keep the issue alive and the pressure on.

BillScher

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Friday August 03, 2007 · 11:30 AM PDT

2007/08/03 · 11:30

The following was emailed to Campaign for America's Future supporters by our Director of Online Communications Ian Mishalove.

No progress on ending the war. No progress on new energy. No progress on health care costs. Why is the new Congress gridlocked?

Conservatives are working hard to spin this as the fault of a "do nothing Congress." But that’s like someone mugging the postman and then complaining that the mail isn’t delivered. The fact is it’s the conservative minority’s own filibusters and vetoes that are systematically killing progress.

But now, our cameras have exposed the force orchestrating this obstruction.

BillScher

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Friday June 29, 2007 · 1:50 PM PDT

2007/06/29 · 13:50

The following is from Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Robert Borosage

Americans elected a new Congress to get things done. But the conservative minority has chosen a strategy of obstruction in the Senate. They have used the threat of a filibuster to delay or block virtually every major initiative.

Bills with majority support--raising the minimum wage, ethics reform, a date to remove troops from Iraq, revoking oil subsidies and putting the money into renewable energy, fulfilling the 9/11 commission recommendations on homeland security--get blocked because they can't garner 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

BillScher

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Wednesday June 13, 2007 · 8:16 AM PDT

2007/06/13 · 08:16

The following was penned by my colleague Eric Lotke, about the new Campaign for America's Future/Media Matters for America report he co-authored, "The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth." With thousands of Americans coming to Washington, DC next week for the Take Back America conference, hosted by Campaign for America's Future, this report will help guide conference participants as they collaborate on how to transform last year's historic election victories into concrete and lasting change for the common good. -- Bill

The facade of conservative political dominance is crumbling. The disintegration runs deeper than public disaffection with the Bush administration's catastrophic failures and is more fundamental than the political realignment of the 2006 election. The notion of America as a "conservative nation" was always more fiction than fact, but the nation's rejection of President Bush's brand of "you're-on-your-own" conservatism and wedge-issue divisiveness is so broad that today the facade is simply unsustainable.

BillScher

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Saturday June 02, 2007 · 4:21 AM PDT

2007/06/02 · 04:21

After Sen. Barack Obama released his highly anticipated health care plan on Tuesday, there was a flurry of blog reaction, led by The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein and The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn – both whom argue that Obama’s plan falls a step short of achieving universal coverage.

But the Obama campaign is further elaborating on the plan, and stating otherwise. Over at the Campaign for America’s Future blog, Obama ’08 health care adviser and Harvard economics professor David Cutler posts that, "All Americans will be covered automatically under this plan. And the resources are set aside in the plan to do whatever is necessary to guarantee affordable coverage for every American."

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 5:57 AM PDT

2007/05/24 · 05:57

In one of Sen. Harry Reid's first radio addresses after the Democratic victories in November 2006, he said the new majority's first guiding legislative principle was "bipartisanship"; Democrats "intend to reach out to President Bush and our Republican colleagues in Congress." The Democrats' last guiding principle would be "results," because "it's time Democrats and Republicans worked together to achieve results."

Four months into the new Congress, how's that game plan working out?

There's not a lot of results. And you can blame all that attempted bipartisanship.

Time and time again, Democratic leaders have sought to accommodate the conservative Republican minority and craft compromise legislation. And in almost every case, it has led to bad or no results.