America's Democrats

Bruce Bartlett was an early “supply-side” economist who worked for President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush. He explains for us why the tax cuts of George W. Bush have not worked and why we need more revenues now.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/author/bruce-bartlett/

An expert on election reform tell us that there is no evidence of voter fraud, but that one out of eight voting records are inaccurate. The answer, says David Becker of the Pew Foundation, might be online registration.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/experts_profile.aspx?id=85899368166

Bill Press chats with the Congressman John Sarbanes about how to clean up campaign financing and maybe amend the Constitution to overturn the Citizens United decision.

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http://sarbanes.house.gov/

Vice President Joe Biden talks the language of a lot of Americans, and regular contributor Fred Rotondaro says President Obama would do well to make the vice president the point man for picking some fights with Republicans. http://www.americanprogress.org/

It isn’t possible to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says our Republican foreign policy expert Mike Ussery. But that still doesn’t make Russia our Number One enemy, he says.

Bill Press chats with the White House correspondent for the “Advocate” about the president standing up for gay marriage. http://www.billpressshow.com/ http://www.advocate.com/

Kasim Reed

Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta is passionate about the need for progressives to throw out their complacency about rights they have already won. Why? Because Republicans are successfully impeding voting rights and women’s rights. He calls their words and actions “insane.”

http://kasimreed.com/

Tamara Draut

Tamara Draut, an activist and author, links the soaring cost of college to the grim future for a generation of 20- and 30-somethings, who may become the first generation of Americans to do worse than their parents.

http://www.demos.org/tamara-draut

Adam Green

Bill Press chats with Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, who provides a rundown on the Massachusetts Senate race and five House races where progressives might replace Republican incumbents.

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http://boldprogressives.org/

Dean Lacy

How is it that the very states that keep voting for Republicans get the most money, per capita, in federal social programs that the voters say they despise? Dartmouth Professor Dean Lacy explains … and he has some thoughts about the history of third parties in presidential elections.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govt/faculty/lacy.html

Geoffrey Kabaservice

Author Geoffrey Kabaservice says moderates don’t spend their time watching cablet TV, and thus are more moderate in their views than the leaders of the Republican Parfty, and they do vote in November.

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Since1945/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTc2ODQwMA==#

Brad Woodhouse

Bill Press chats with Brad Woodhouse of the Democratic National Committee, who says forget Mitt Romney’s flip-flops – let’s find out what he is actually proposing!

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http://www.democrats.org/

Leon Billings

Leon Billings was Senator Ed Muskie’s administrative assistant and helped write the nation’s environmental laws. As America celebrates another Earth Day, we ask him if the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts are still effective? 

http://www.greentechfoundation.org/Advisors_billings.htm

Catherine Poe

Regular contributor Catherine Poe says the Trayvon Martin case was a perfect storm of race, media and political paranoia.

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/staff/catherine-poe/

Keith Ellison

Bill Press chats with Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus about a fair budget and the fight against restrictive voter I.D. legislation in the states.

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http://ellison.house.gov/

Douglas Amy

Douglas Amy is a professor at Mt. Holyoke College and an unabashed believer that “government is good.” As the IRS reviews America’s tax returns, Professor Amy explains just what we get for our taxes.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/douglas_amy.html

Teresa Ghilarducci

Retirement expert Teresa Ghilarducci says the Federal Reserve policy of low interest rates is hurting fixed income pensions. Her solution is for the government to establish guaranteed annuities that the Fed’s employees get – for everyone.

http://teresaghilarducci.org/

Hilda Solis 

Bill Press chats with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis about the recent jobs report and the difficulties women have in today’s labor market. 

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http://twitter.com/#!/hildasolisdol

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Author and Democratic activist Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is concerned about the injection of religious belief into political campaigns. After Rick Santorum said her uncle John F. Kennedy’s call for separation of church and state made him want to throw up, she says Santorum was being childish and unworthy of a presidential candidate.

http://www.kathleenkennedytownsend.com/

Mike Ussery

One-time Republican campaign strategist Mike Ussery says Mitt Romney has a rough course toward winning the presidency, but  if he can take Florida and Ohio, then the president is in trouble.

http://www.babcenter.org/ussery.htm

Richard Trumka

Bill Press chats with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on labor’s endorsement of President Obama, Republican attempts to suppress the vote and the need for bipartisan support for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

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http://www.aflcio.org/

Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank, who several years ago wrote the best-seller “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” turns his attention to Wall Street in a book called “Pity the Billionaire.” Frank says that the right-wing money machine succeeded in blaming progressives for the financial collapse caused by the billionaires, partly because the public didn’t really understand the crisis.

http://www.tcfrank.com/

Dean Lacy

Dartmouth Professor Dean Lacy says three-quarters of the public believe they pay more in taxes than they get back from the government. Which, of course, isn’t true. But what is true is there is a correlation between voting Republican andgetting more government assistance!

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govt/faculty/lacy.html

Al Gore

Bill Press, joined by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, for an interview with Al Gore who says the Republican field of presidential candidates is “embarrassing to the country.” 

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http://www.algore.com/

Teresa Ghilarducci

Teresa Ghilarducci is an expert on retirement security, and while Republicans continue their assault on Social Security, she has a new idea – let individuals get the same guaranteed-income retirement accounts that employees of the Federal Reserve have.

http://teresaghilarducci.org/

Catherine Poe

Columnist and regular contributor Catherine Poe makes the case for the Dream Act – to help children of undocumented workers who were born in the United States get a college education. She points out how Mitt Romney is way out of step with other Republicans and with his own church on  this issue.

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/staff/catherine-poe/

Charles Postel

And now, historian Charles Postel examines the “no-tax” pledge that Grover Norquist imposes on Republicans -- driving moderates out of the GOP, making the rich richer and the rest of us more miserable.

http://history.sfsu.edu/faculty/defaultfaculty.htm

James K. Galbraith

Regular commentator James K. Galbraith, author of a new book on inequality and economic instability, says it isn’t that we need new regulations on banks … the laws in place have plenty of teeth, if only someone would operate the jaw behind them.

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Geoffrey Kabaservice

Political scientist Geoffrey Kabaservice has written extensively about the disappearance of moderate Republicans and says it should be of concerns to both parties because governing comes from the middle.

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Katie Paris

An interview by Bill Press with Katie Paris of Media Matters on two big business issues – Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers and the whistleblower from Goldman Sachs.

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http://mediamatters.org/