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Why Can't Washington Pols Be More LIke NFL Negotiators?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2011 Comment (12)What does it mean when people who mounted political campaigns and were ostensibly vetted by the voters cannot come to an agreement on the debt ceiling, but the National Football League and professional athletes worked out a deal in plenty of time for the football season to start on time?
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Obama Plays Hardball with Debt Ceiling Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2011 Comment (12)President Barack Obama may have been the picture of nonpartisan, compromising cool during his speech to the nation Monday night. Behind the scenes, however, he was all Saul Alinsky.
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With Speech, Obama Handled the Debt Ceiling Crisis Like a President
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2011 Comment (14)The president reminded us of who's in charge
Monday night, after the president's speech, Chris Matthews, a guy who professes to be a liberal but about whom I must admit I have my doubts, stated the following: "The president should not have gone on national television to give a political address."
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Rick Perry's 2012 Swing State Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2011 Comment (8)DENVER, COLO.— On Friday, Rick Perry will be in Denver speaking to the Western Conservative Summit. This will be yet another platform for everybody’s favorite political parlor game, “When will Rick Perry save the Republicans?”
But there are a few things Rick Perry needs to know about Colorado before he decides to run for president.
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Debt Ceiling Crisis Reveals GOP's Suicide Bomber Wing
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (18)In retrospect, the emergence of a suicide-bomber wing of the Republican Party should've seemed obvious.
Why use such an inflammatory term? What I mean by it is this: They would blow up the economy to fulfill a mission of otherworldly righteousness.
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Fuss About Michele Bachmann's Migraines Fueled by Sexism
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (10)GOP contender Michele Bachmann certainly has made statements that deserve close questioning. She has confused Concord, Mass., with Concord, N.H. in her discussion of the Revolutionary War. She said her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa was home to famed actor John Wayne when (oops!) it was, in fact, famed murderer John Wayne Gacy. (And do you really want to mention "Waterloo" when mounting a campaign of any kind, anyway?) On a more substantive level, Bachmann should be expected to explain why, despite the warnings of numerous economists, she seems unconcerned about the fallout of a failure to raise the debt ceiling.
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GOP's Debt Ceiling Fight Is About Bringing Down Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (31)Impeach him.
Not the president. Barack Obama is holding a huge global and domestic crisis in his hand. To use a Washington metaphor, he's dangerously close to being left "holding the bag" on the Treasury debt ceiling limit. He keeps talking sweet reason about the art of compromise to Republicans in Congress—not a language they speak. Obama played golf with the House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican who drones on about "small business" every chance he gets. Obama is not getting traction or making friends with Boehner because he does not grasp the conversation about the debt limit is not about the debt limit. It's about taking his presidency down—this week—even if it hurts the United States of America, which it will. A small price to pay for this tea-drinking crowd of 87 GOP House freshmen which turned the chamber upside down six months ago.
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Obama's Fuel Economy Standards Threaten the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (4)Remember when, in the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promised to launch an assault on needless, duplicative, wasteful federal agencies and regulations? Neither does he.
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Norway Reacts to Terror Attack With Commendable Peace
Tweet Share on Facebook July 25, 2011 Comment (23)Oslo, Norway, has long been a symbol of peace, culturally and officially. Homicides and other violent crime are uncommon; security around government buildings is low, compared to other countries. And, notably, Oslo is home to the Nobel Peace Prize.
That image was tragically shattered when a crazed gunman with apparent racist and anti-immigrant leanings launched what police believe was a dual attack, bombing a building in the city and shooting scores of young people who were at a Labour Party camp on an island. Initial worries were that the attacker was a member of al Qaeda or another terrorist group with Islamic connections. In fact, the accused mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik, said he was on a crusade against multiculturalism and Islam. In a 1,500-page manifesto identified with Breivik, he decries "Islamic colonisation and Islamisation of Western Europe" and the "rise of cultural Marxism/multi-culturalism."
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Michele Bachmann's Views, Not Her Headaches, Make Her Unfit
Tweet Share on Facebook July 25, 2011 Comment (67)There is no doubt that Michele Bachmann gives many of us a headache. But to attack her, as Tim Pawlenty has done in such a sexist way, as unfit to be president because of migraines is absurd.
Many of our presidents have had health problems much more serious than headaches—Roosevelt, Kennedy, Taft, to name a few.
The problem with Michele Bachmann is not her migraines, it’s what is in her head. It’s her ideas that matter.
