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The Healthcare Debate’s Next Step 22 Jul 2012 | 05:19 pm
This is a guest blog post by Stuart Cohen. Now that the Healthcare law’s validity is settled, or at least as settled as it’s likely to be anytime soon, it’s time to refine it. The partisan battle ov...
Voting out incumbents won’t change Congress 19 Jul 2012 | 12:40 am
One of our Board Members, Tim Penny, wrote an awesome op-ed for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He laid five reforms that will fix Congress. My favorite: “docking the pay of members for every day spent...
Us v. Them: The mentality of MAD 14 Jul 2012 | 12:41 am
This is a guest blog post by Dave Hastings, author of the blog “The Squeaky Moderate”, which can be found here I snapped this photo in the Charlotte airport a few weeks ago. While I won’t begrudge an...
The Real Lesson from the Health Care Ruling 9 Jul 2012 | 04:13 pm
The author of this blog post is Glenn Nye, a former member of Congress (D-VA) and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Amid all the drama surrounding the Supreme Court’s historic r...
Lunch with the Other Side 19 Jun 2012 | 05:20 am
This is the first in a series of guest blog posts that we’ll be publishing. The author is Stuart Cohen, a supporter of the Coalition. We challenge all House members, each Senator, every state legisla...
Buying Elections 19 May 2012 | 03:14 am
The Federal government isn’t the only one racking in money in April—the Romney and Obama campaigns each raised over $40 million last month. And the Obama campaign and Crossroads GPS (Karl Rove’s super...
Balancing the Budget 7 May 2012 | 10:23 pm
We’ve appreciated all the feedback visitors to our site and Facebook page have given us about what we are trying to accomplish. While the overwhelming majority of comments that we’ve received have bee...
Bipartisanship exists! 21 Apr 2012 | 04:13 am
A recent Politico article spotted something that had been considered extinct in Washington: bipartisanship. The Senate Appropriations Committee, charged with vetting Government spending requests befor...
The Common Sense Coalition 12 Apr 2012 | 10:16 pm
The recent recession has seriously stretched the national psyche. While there are signs of improvement, few solutions to our long term challenges are emerging from our political system. As unsettling ...
