Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
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Medicare
Posted on April 11, 2011
Amid all the talk of a government shutdown, Democratically-aligned outside interest groups started running commercials against Congressional Republicans about something that had absolutely nothing to do with the government shutdown:...
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Shutdown Politics
Posted on April 8, 2011
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang...
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Dems Punt on Taxes
Posted on April 7, 2011
Balancing the federal budget (or at least making the unbalanced budget look more respectable) usually requires two kinds of actions from policy makers: cutting spending and raising revenue. Republicans like...
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Act Like a Grown-Up
Posted on April 6, 2011
Yesterday, President Obama said that Congressional leaders should act like “grown-ups.” Good advice. I wish he would follow it. According to the dictionary definition, a grown-up is a “a fully...
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The 10-Year Number
Posted on April 1, 2011
It is easy to be fairly nonchalant about the current budget battle that has consumed the Congress. Pundits (myself included) have pointed out that the tens of billions of dollars...
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