RootsAction.org Statement on Withdrawal of Tanden Nomination
by RootsAction.org
on March 02, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Tuesday, March 2
RootsAction.org Statement on Withdrawal of Tanden Nomination
"RootsAction is proud to have led the progressive opposition to Neera Tanden's nomination and heartened that she will not be OMB director. The opposition of Republican senators over nasty tweets was of course hypocritical and absurd, given their muted response to years of Trump's tweeting. But it was inexcusable for Democratic senators to be silent about the legitimate reasons to oppose her nomination -- the potential conflicts of interest raised by her years of coziness with powerful corporate elites. That silence may be explained by the fact that Democrats in the Senate are beholden to some of the same corporate donors that lavishly bankroll Tanden's think tank. Tanden was the wrong choice to head a federal agency that is vital in the regulatory process. It strains credulity to contend that she would have been a true advocate for the public interest after many years of dutifully serving corporate interests."
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Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein, New York Times
on March 02, 2021
Small government is no match for a crisis born of the state’s twin addictions to market fixes and fossil fuels.
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Massachusetts’ Progressive Lawmakers Push Congress to Abolish Qualified Immunity
by Akela Lacy, The Intercept
on March 02, 2021
A bill introduced by Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren comes as the House prepares to vote on major policing reform.
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Biden's Flaccid Stance on Human Rights Offers Little Hope
by William Boardman, Reader Supported News
on March 02, 2021
Addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 24, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had an opportunity to demonstrate the Biden administration’s break with the past by establishing a new level of human rights leadership. He failed.
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Universality or Fighting Over Scraps
by David Swanson
on February 25, 2021
Why should rich people get pandemic survival checks? Why shouldn’t descendants of enslaved people get reparations payments? Why should someone who doesn’t go to college pay taxes to make college free? Why should smokers get health coverage? Why should someone get out of their student debt when I didn’t?
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A Virtual Wall Is Trump’s Wall by Another Name
by RootsAction.org
on February 25, 2021
In response to the provisions of the Biden administration’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which directs the Department of Homeland Security to deploy surveillance infrastructure and technology along the border, both at and between ports of entry, the following border community, immigrant rights, and privacy organizations issue this statement:
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Republican Hypocrisy Is No Reason to Support Neera Tanden
by Norman Solomon
on February 25, 2021
Most corporate media outlets have depicted President Biden’s effort to win Senate confirmation of Neera Tanden as a battle to overcome Republican hypocrisy about her “mean tweets,” name-calling and nasty partisanship.
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RootsAction statement on stalled Tanden nomination
by RootsAction.org
on February 24, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Wednesday, Feb. 24
Statement on Stalled Tanden Nomination
RootsAction.org -- the progressive organization that has strongly opposed the nomination of Neera Tanden to be Office of Management and Budget director -- issued this statement in response to the news that her nomination has stalled and may soon be withdrawn: "We are heartened that Tanden's nomination has stalled. Mainly due to her well-documented coziness with corporate elites, she is the wrong choice to head a federal agency that is vital in the regulatory process. It strains credulity to contend that she would be a true advocate for the public interest after many years of dutifully serving corporate interests."
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The Head of Every Table: Joe Biden’s Impossible Foreign Policy Aspirations
by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage, The Nation
on February 21, 2021
If the president and his team don’t rethink the United States’ presence across the world, our real security will be the first casualty.
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Push hard and fast
by Jim Hightower, CSIndy
on February 21, 2021
Grassroots progressives put Biden in the White House… but what do we get for that?
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