Expiration of the Bush-era Tax cuts + Sequestration … An accident of timing … a result of a one-two punch … combines major across the board spending cuts to the Pentagon/domestics programs with tax increases.
If the U.S. government ends up careening off the "fiscal cliff," Republicans in Congress stand to shoulder most of the blame, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. Breakdown: 53% said Republicans in Congress would be more to blame, 29% said Obama while 10% said both. Those kinds...
As President Lyndon Johnson said, “… two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex.” Enough Said.
The Wall Street Journal reports: “… Republican Party leaders are falling into roughly two camps as they struggle to explain what happened and devise ways to broaden the party's base. Some top GOP officials worry their message is wrong for a rapidly diversifying population, and that fundamental shifts in policy...
As National Journal’s Ron Brownstein writes, “the Republican Party now finds itself in the same position that Democrats were in after 1988: searching for a way to broaden the party’s appeal and message. (Or as former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour puts it, the GOP is in need of “a very...
President Obama’s first presser following his reelection made clear that he has no time to savor his victory and that he’s not going to make exaggerated claims of electoral mandates. NO HONEYMOON FOR OBAMA President Obama acknowledged, “I'm more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108
