Bill Clinton: Crisis Proposal "Not Sufficient"

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 12:13 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 12:13

Cross-posted at MyDD.com...

Monday evening I had the privilege to attend a meeting held in New York City for a small group of progressive bloggers by former President Clinton, ostensibly about the work of the Clinton Global Initiative.

But on the eve of the CGI conference, the former President used most of the hour-long meeting to discuss our current economic crisis, calling for a broader, more comprehensive federal response than what has so far been proposed by Bush administration officials.

Clinton pressed several times for progressives to use their leverage to demand more populist assistance and accountability in a larger crisis response - including a moratorium on foreclosures and the creation of a modern-day Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Depression-era government agency that refinanced mortgages to prevent foreclosure.

To their credit, Clinton said, Paulson and Bernanke have done "about what they were supposed to do." But the current administration proposal doesn't do enough "to deal with the range of 'main street' issues" facing Americans, Clinton said.

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 10:25 AM PDT

2008/06/11 · 10:25

The staff at Netroots Nation just sent out the email below. Another big announcement following the news of Governor Dean yesterday.

Media accountability has always been one of the foundations of progressive online activism, so we're proud and honored to announce this one.

More announcements on the way. With July 17-20 is right around the corner, if you haven't signed up for the conference yet, it's time to get on the train to Austin...

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 9:42 AM PST

2006/02/28 · 09:42

Apparently, Texans for Public Justice is an effective watchdog agency. You might remember their complaint against Delay in 2003 that eventually resulted in Delay and his aides' indictments.

How effective are they? Well, now it appears almost certain that one of Delay's lawyers reached out to some friends...and TPJ found itself under intimidation-by-audit.

Craig McDonald, Executive Director for Texans for Public Justice, will be on Al Franken's show today (with Sam Seder guest-hosting) at about 1:30PM Eastern time to talk about the targeting of his non-profit.

More details on the 'Nixonian' foul-play after the break... Read More

Insider Trading in Frist and Delay's Office: Story Growing

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 2:04 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 14:04

In an exclusive last night on Air America Radio's The Majority Report, Rep. Louise Slaughter alleged that day-traders had been operating inside the offices of Senator Frist and Congressman Delay. Telling us that her source was "as good as gold," Rep. Slaughter promised to investigate further and get back to us. Audio available via AMERICAblog here.

"I'm going to track this down, I know it's true," Slaughter told us,"that Frist, DeLay and probably others had some day traders working out of their offices." Those working out of the Congressional offices "would find out there's a bill being written by lobbyists, that there would be no asbestos bill ... and when the market opened the next day, the cost of asbestos stock had doubled."

UPDATE: Congressman Baird (leading this cause on the Hill) laid out the problem on The Majority Report tonight...audio over at AMERICAblog here.

The context of this story, and the practice of spreading insider "political intelligence" is starting to unfold...developments on the other side...

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