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On Fiscal Cliff, Obama Should Learn From Bush’s 1990 Tax Hike
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2012 CommentThose of us who were in the Bush 41 White House during the 1990 budget deal recall it well. There was this three-sentence announcement of the bipartisan agreement posted on the wall of the press office on June 26, 1990:
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Republican Party Needs More Women, Minorities in Leadership Posts
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2012 CommentElections have consequences and lessons, and Republicans are saying they are learning theirs. The party must reach out to women and ethnic and racial minorities if it is to remain a viable force in American politics.
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What the Polls Don’t Tell Us About Raising Taxes
Tweet Share on Facebook November 30, 2012 CommentThe coverage of the nation's approach to the so-called "fiscal cliff" is full of polls showing most Americans would be willing to see tax rates go up for the wealthiest Americans if it would help with deficit reduction.
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GOP Can't Dismiss Time's Sandra Fluke Person of the Year Nod
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2012 CommentConservatives are very much in arms over the news that Sandra Fluke, she of the uber-expensive birth control problem, is under consideration to be Time's Person of the Year.
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The Business Community Must Knock Sense Into Republicans
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2012 CommentReagan did it as governor and as president. George H. W. Bush did it. Bill Clinton did it.
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Shelley Moore Capito Can Win in West Virginia
Tweet Share on Facebook November 28, 2012 CommentTo hear Barney Keller tell it, Nothing is better than Something.
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How Can China Beat the U.S. if it Loses to The Onion?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 28, 2012 CommentWhy are so many people afraid of China?
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Sandra Fluke Belongs on Time's 'Person of the Year' List
Tweet Share on Facebook November 28, 2012 CommentIs it a fluke?
Time magazine has come out once again with it's annual "Person of the Year" nominees list. I'm always curious who is nominated and of course, like many, who winds up on the cover and is chosen as the "Person of the Year." The criteria to be chosen, according to Time, is: "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year."
And Sandra Fluke fits that criteria.
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GOP Shouldn't Abandon Call for Lower Taxes, Pro-Life Stance
Tweet Share on Facebook November 28, 2012 CommentStill reeling from its surprising loss in the 2012 presidential election, Republicans of all stripes are coming forward with "new" ideas to restore the party to electoral success.
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States Lose If We Go off the Fiscal Cliff
Tweet Share on Facebook November 27, 2012 CommentThe debt is alarmingly high, healthcare costs—especially Medicaid—are increasing, stimulus spending has dried up, and officials are faced with an unappetizing choice of raising revenues, cutting services, or both. The looming "fiscal cliff" would make things even more dire.
