According to First Read, everything out there suggests that Washington isn’t going off the cliff. The Washington Post reports that Republican centrists and even some conservatives are calling on House Speaker Boehner “to concede on rates now, while he still has some leverage to demand something in return.” And the...
This week Democrats adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk Republicans to the edge of the fiscal cliff on a belief that mounting pressure from within the GOP will force conservatives to fold on tax hikes. And so far, each passing day seems to add another Republican voice to the...
If Congress and the White House fail to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff, 53% of people surveyed by a Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll say that Republicans would be more at fault.
One of the reasons why Boehner appears safer than ever before is that his whole leadership team (Eric Cantor/Kevin McCarthy/Paul Ryan) seems to be all on board. That’s a difference from 2011.
During a meeting convened Tuesday, Sen. Tom Coburn suggested that his fellow conservative Republicans should consider letting Bush-era tax cuts expire on the wealthy in exchange for entitlement reform promises. A couple conservative senators in on the GOP steering committee seemed open to the idea. But it was generally met...
If you thought President Obama was drawing a hard line on taxes, that’s nothing compared to the line he seemed ready to draw on lifting the debt ceiling. Obama warned Republicans that he wouldn’t let the debt ceiling be dragged into current negotiations over tax and deficit policy. LIMIT CONGRESS’...
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