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The following is an excerpt from Matthew Yglesias | April 10, 2013 | Slate.com |
President Obama’s much delayed fiscal year 2014 budget is another salvo in D.C.’s endless war over taxes. Obama embraces both reductions in Medicare payments and a controversial cost-of-living formula to reduce Social Security benefits while demanding ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Emily Rauhala | April 4, 2013 | Time.com |
There is not much that brings together Democrats and Republicans these days. But on Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, American politicos are uncharacteritically united. Though largely unknown to U.S. consumers, Huawei Techonlogies is an industry leader ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from YUVAL LEVIN | Apr 1, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28 | Weeklystandard.com |
As they seek to revive their political fortunes in the wake of last year’s disastrous election, Republicans risk a dangerous misunderstanding: Since Democrats did well last November and Republicans generally didn’t, some ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOSH BOAK and ERIC PIANIN | January 1, 2012 | thefiscaltimes.com |
If the budget gods had their way, the 112th Congress would mercifully conclude its deliberations today on a major budget deal to blunt the worst of the fiscal cliff and then fade into ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from IAN SALISBURY | November 15, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
By now, you've probably heard of the high-stakes budget standoff that Republicans and Democrats have to resolve by year-end. If they fail, a slew of painful tax changes -- including an end to breaks on everything ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOSH BOAK | October 1, 2012 | thefiscaltimes.com |
Despite mixed economic signals and warnings about the country getting dropkicked into recession next year by the “fiscal cliff,” consumer confidence has climbed in parallel with President Obama’s surge in the polls over Mitt Romney.
Analysis by ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Sunlen Miller | September 20, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
More than 30 Senate Republicans took to the Senate floor this morning in back-to-back coordinated speeches with attacks aimed at President Obama and the Democratically-led Senate.
The speeches were one part airing of grievances, one part campaign ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from STEPHEN F. HAYES and WILLIAM KRISTOL | August 9, 2012 | weeklystandard.com |
In an interview on March 22, two weeks before Mitt Romney would win the Wisconsin primary and effectively end the race for the Republican nomination, Milwaukee talk radio host Charlie Sykes asked ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ERIC PIANIN | May 3, 2012 | TheFiscalTimes.com |
Much of Washington journalism long ago abandoned any pretense of objectivity and instead found it more profitable to stake out ideological positions from which to tell larger “truths” about politicians and their conduct.
Notions about telling all ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Christina Bonnington | January 31, 2012 | Wired.com |
We’re about 10 months away from the presidential election, and grassroots fundraising is kicking into high gear. For the first time ever, smartphone-enabled mobile payments are playing into fundraising schemes, both for Republican and Democrat presidential ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Devin Dwyer | December 28, 2011 | abcnews.go.com |
President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will each hold a virtual huddle with grassroots supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire on the states’ respective caucus and primary nights next month, campaign officials say.
On Jan. 3, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: The Opinion Pages of the NYtimes | December 8, 2011 | Nytimes.com |
With only a week to go before Congress adjourns for the holidays, Congress has yet to renew federal unemployment benefits or the payroll tax cut that will expire at year-end. Unfortunately, Republican ... Read More
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