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The ducks, they teeter/ Off the long-awaited cliff / Lame! it's just a hill. #FiscalCliffHaikus
Gap Wide, Time Short
With time running short to work out a deal to avert a year-end fiscal crisis, President Obama called Speaker John A. Boehner to the White House on Thursday evening to...
Democrats Declare Checkmate In ‘Cliff’ Debate
Democrats look at the political landscape and see a win whether a deal gets cut now or after the country goes over the fiscal cliff. In the worst-case scenario, they...
GOP Faces Tough Choices In Fiscal-Cliff Battle
According to the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 55% of adults say President Obama is making a serious effort to work...
As the deadline to avert the fiscal cliff moves closer, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that 65% of Americans want Congress and the White House to compromise...
Bernanke: It’s A Cliff, Not A Slope
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended his characterization of the year-end tax hikes and spending cuts as a “fiscal cliff” and not a slope, as some economists and lawmakers have...
Obama’s Susan Rice Problem Solved
The Obama team was quickly coming to realize that a Rice nomination was simply going to cost him too much political capital. THE IMPORTANCE OF PICKING YOUR FIGHTS To explain...
Hagel Top Candidate For Secretary Of Defense
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-NE, is likely to become the next Defense secretary and tops President Obama’s list of potential nominees, Bloomberg reports. Hagel, who served in Vietnam and has...
Obama’s Foreign Policy Agenda
Sources close to Obama say the president seeks a lofty historical stature in foreign affairs that will require a bolder agenda. Several big ticket items include stepping up his first-term...