Posts Tagged ‘spending’
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CLASS Act
Posted on July 22, 2011
In these days of intense partisanship and over-the-top rhetoric, it is somehow appropriate that the one thing that Congress would agree to repeal is the CLASS Act. It goes without...
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Bad Reason, Good Reason
Posted on July 21, 2011
Bad reason: Opposing the grand bargain because you think a grand bargain would help President Obama get re-elected. Good reason: Opposing the grand bargain because you think raising taxes will...
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A Grand Bargain?
Posted on July 20, 2011
I love when the Senate comes up with a grand bargain. It gets all the Washington insiders excited. The pundits love grand bargains. The media goes crazy over grand bargains....
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Where’s Nancy?
Posted on July 18, 2011
The media loves to spend time speculating about how John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going to round up the votes to pass President Obama’s debt limit legislation. But they...
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History
Posted on July 15, 2011
I can’t tell if this current Congress is making history, defying history, ignoring history, or will soon be history. I had dinner last night with a Freshman member of the...
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