From NJ Hotline, “President Obama's State of the Union honed in on many of the themes that have characterized his post-election agenda thus far: A focus on the coalition of voters who delivered him a second term and a critique of a Congress he sees as both obstructionist and dysfunctional....
David Rogers writes, “Washington is in a swivet these days over across-the-board cuts March 1 that threaten to wreak havoc with domestic agencies and military readiness. But the reality is that if every American were to get one penny less on each dollar of government benefits and pay one penny...
Jonathan Weisman and Elizabeth Bumiller report for the New York Times: "With at least one million jobs on the line, Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off nearly $1 trillion in cuts that were already affecting Pentagon decision-making and could force significant...
From Politico, “Panetta approved the Navy's request to delay the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman to the Persian Gulf region -- effectively cutting the U.S. carrier presence there from two to one. Pentagon Press Secretary George Little explained, "The United States will continue to maintain a robust military...
“Sequester ain't so bad,” according to William Hartung of the Center for International Policy. “Depending on the surrounding economic context, cuts in Pentagon spending could even result in a net increase in jobs nationwide," Hartung writes in a new report, knocking the doomsday predictions put forward by Panetta and defense...
The Washington Post, by Greg Miller: "A Senate hearing on the nomination of John O. Brennan to serve as CIA director exposed deep skepticism of key aspects of the Obama administration's approach to fighting terrorism, including its unprecedented reliance on targeted killing and the secrecy it maintains around the exercise...
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