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Americans Finally Realize GOP Handling Debt Debate Poorly
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2011 Comment (50)And the loser is... the GOP!
Or so says the latest CBS poll showing 71 percent of Americans don't like the GOP's handling of the debt crisis. And why would they? Americans have shown in polls, time and time again, that they want both sides, Democrat and Republican, to work together to get business done in Washington. To get the business of raising the debt ceiling done, that takes compromise; a word I fear Republicans don't like or perhaps aren't that familiar with. A great man once told me the best negotiations are when both parties leave the room winning and losing. The president has shown his ability to compromise; he put cuts to Medicare and Social Security on the table. Heck, he's even willing to talk about cuts rather than just raising the debt ceiling on his own!
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Critics of Economic Stimulus Need Better Arguments
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (7)One of my deepest anxieties as a conservative lately is rooted in the sense that many of my cohorts are over-reliant on platitudes. Pick a problem or crisis—the '08 crash, persistent unemployment, deficits, you name it—and you'll find readymade rubber-stamp solutions.
The gnaw-factor of this anxiety skyrocketed when I read this Corner post by Heritage Foundation economist J.D. Foster, in response to Ezra Klein's defense of Keynesian stimulus theory.
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Murdochs Breeze Through Parliament Hearing on Hacking Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (32)With the exception of a single chucklehead armed with a pie, no one laid a glove on News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in his appearance Tuesday before a Parliamentary committee.
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GOP Could Regret Pushing Elizabeth Warren Into a Senate Run
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (13)Senate Republicans must feel awfully confident about the re-election chances of GOP Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. Otherwise, it could be really, really awkward in the Senate dining room come 2013.
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Obama Should Marginalize GOP Over Debt Ceiling Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (16)Dear President Obama,
Your 50th birthday is nearly upon you this summer, falling on August 4, roughly when the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury may collapse in the global economy.
What an awful present to a forever-young president. Sorry, but right now, the sunny glow of youth is not a good look for you. Age and gravitas would become you better than the grace of a gazelle, as you move. And the candles at the court—well, they're not burning very bright these mid-summer nights. Something has got to give. Mind if I offer more free advice, gift-wrapped, to someone I wish well?
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House GOP Wastes Time on Inane Light Bulb Battle
Tweet Share on Facebook July 18, 2011 Comment (33)How many House Republicans does it take to unscrew an energy-efficient light bulb law?
We can’t be sure, since it was done on a voice vote. But it was a GOP-driven effort, and an avowed GOP victory for the rights of energy-inefficient light bulb users everywhere, when the House voted last week to defund a federal law requiring that light bulbs be 30 percent more efficient by 2012. The law—notably passed and signed during the Bush administration—does not explicitly ban incandescent bulbs the GOP’s constituents claim to love so much, but the energy standards certainly would result in the old-style bulbs being phased out.
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On The Debt Talks, We Need Paul Ryan to The Rescue!
Tweet Share on Facebook July 15, 2011 Comment (34)Here's an idea to solve the stalled debt negotiations: President Obama should accept the Ryan budget in exchange for Republicans agreeing to raise the debt limit. The Ryan plan closes the corporate tax loopholes everyone wants closed, lowers the corporate tax rates as Republicans want, and does more than the President's “grand bargain” to put Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on structurally sound footing and get spending under control. And here's the best reason of all: the Ryan budget already passed the House back in April.
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On Debt Ceiling, GOP Has a Plan
Tweet Share on Facebook July 15, 2011 Comment (17)It is getting harder and harder to take President Barack Obama seriously.
He has failed to show any real leadership as the federal government approaches the statutory limit on its ability to borrow money. Instead, rather than proposing a plan of his own he vacillates, at times whining like an impertinent child and other times hectoring like a Kansas schoolmarm.
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Obama's 50th Fundraiser
Tweet Share on Facebook July 15, 2011 Comment (7)Candidates for office fundraise. Candidates named "Obama" take fundraising to new levels.
This week we learned President Obama raised some $86 million in the most recent quarter—$47 million his campaign-proper and $38 the Democratic National Committee—more than the Republican candidates for president combined.
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McConnell Changes Course on Debt Ceiling - Will Back Cut, Cap and Balance
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2011 Comment (23)Kentucky Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who earlier this week was pilloried by conservatives when he proposed giving President Barack Obama the authority to increase the debt ceiling unless Congress voted its disapproval, won plaudits from those same critics Thursday when he became a co-sponsor of the Senate's "Cut, Cap and Balance Act."
