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And on the Plus Side

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - May. 16 (Opinion) - Let’s try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House: • Economy’s getting a little better. Deficit’s dropping. • Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how well things turned out f

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The GOP's Diversity Deserts

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - Well, that didn’t take long. Just a week ago, the Republicans issued their much-ballyhooed “autopsy” on why they lost the presidential election last year and how they might remedy their problems. They concluded that their principles were fine; the proble

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Immigration officials tight-lipped about detainee release. What is known?

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - Here are the basics about the detainee release – from the terminology that immigration officials use to a glimpse into the kinds of people who have been released. ...

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Deal to avert government shutdown likely, Boehner says

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Kimberly Kindy, Rosalind S. Helderman - Mar. 04 (News Report) - Congress returns to work this week with no plan to reverse across-the-board spending cuts that took effect late Friday — but with hope on both sides of the aisle to avert an end-of-month showdown that could result in a government shutdown. Read full article >>

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The Sequester Blame Game

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Mar. 02 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner emerged from their White House meeting on sequestration blaming each other for the automatic spending cuts and misrepresenting the other side’s position: Obama’s remarks left the false impression that Boehner has reneged on a GOP plan to raise $800 billion by limiting … More >>

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Boehner Did Not Rule Out Tax Revenues to Prevent Sequestration

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - In recent days, as $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts—a.k.a. sequestration—have neared, Republicans have tried mightily to depict this indiscriminate slashing as President Barack Obama's doing (while also accusing Obama of fear-mongering regarding the cuts' recessionary impacts). They have gleefully asserted that it was the White House that first suggested sequestration as a means to resolve the debt ceiling impasse created by GOPers in 2011. But their accusation has been undermined by a fact recently highlighted in multiple media accounts : When they passed the sequestration bill, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top GOPers in Congress, each accepted sequestration as it was designed—that is, as a legislative doomsday machine that would force a so-called congressional supercommittee to come up with a deficit reduction plan to supplant these deep across-the-board cuts in defense and nondefense spending. But there is a GOP fallback ...

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Paying People to Play Video Games

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Feb. 23 (Fact Check) - House Speaker John Boehner tweets that the Obama administration is spending $1.2 million “paying people to play video games.” That’s misleading. The government did pay $1.2 million for university research that includes the study of how video games can stimulate the cognitive abilities of seniors. A fraction of that cost went to compensate seniors who participated in the study, researchers say.

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Who is responsible for the looming ‘sequester’ spending cuts?

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Feb. 11 (Fact Check) - Question: “Looking at all this, do you regret that this White House suggested this in the first place?” White House spokesman Jay Carney: “The notion much propounded by the spin doctors on the Republican side that the sequester is somehow something that the White House and the president alone wanted and desired is a fanciful confection. The fact of the matter is, as I think you all recall in the wake of the passage of the Budget Control Act, it was the Republicans, including the Republican Leader of the House, who celebrated it as getting 98 percent of what they wanted.” Read full article ...

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Conservatives run ads vs. McConnell

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Ginger Gibson - Jan. 09 (News Report) - A conservative advocacy group is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a series of online ads in his home state for helping to negotiate the fiscal cliff deal.

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In House of Representatives, an Arithmetic Problem

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - The difficulty for Speaker John A. Boehner is in finding any winning coalition of votes in the House.

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The Absolutist Politics of Norquist and LaPierre Will Destroy the Republican Party

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By David Paul - Dec. 22 (News Analysis) - National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre really out-did himself this week. Speaking in response to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, LaPierre concluded that armed guards in the schools were the answer.

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What now? 'Plan B' collapse leaves fiscal crisis solution in doubt

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 21 (News Report) - After House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" for averting the fiscal crisis withered Thursday night in the absence of enough Republican support, one question echoed through Washington -- what now?

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Op-Ed Columnist: Playing Taxes Hold ’Em

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - We don’t know exactly why Mr. Boehner didn’t respond to the president’s offer with a real counteroffer and instead offered something ludicrous — a “Plan B” that, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, would actually raise taxes for a number of lower- and middle-income families, while cutting taxes for almost half of those in the top 1 percent. The effect, however, has to have been to disabuse the Obama team of any illusions that they were engaged in good-faith negotiations.

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Boehner's Plan B fiscal cliff bill pulled amid dissension in GOP caucus

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Deirdre Walsh, Dana Bash, Craig Broffman - Dec. 20 (News Report) - House Speaker John Boehner's proposal to avert the looming fiscal cliff's automatic tax increases failed to curry enough Republican support Thursday night, after which Congress left for the holiday with no clear end in sight in the high-stakes debate.

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House approves plan to replace painful spending cuts, nears contentious vote on tax rates

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 20 (News Report) - House Republicans on Thursday passed the first of two bills aimed at averting the looming fiscal crisis, approving a plan that would replace sweeping cuts to defense and other programs with cuts elsewhere in the budget. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/20/republicans-plan-showdown-votes-on-fiscal-crisis-over-dem-opposition/#ixzz2FdmM76P7

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President Obama Offers a Budget Deal

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - No sooner did President Obama offer Speaker John Boehner a more-than-generous budget deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff than Mr. Boehner invoked what he called “Plan B.” After arguing, absurdly, that the president’s plan was unbalanced, Mr. Boehner

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Pain Ahead if the U.S. Goes Off the ‘Fiscal-Cliff’

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Dec. 14 (Opinion) - You might never spot an air marshal on your flight, but it’s reassuring to know one might be there. In a few weeks, though, many of them are likely to get pink slips — along with food safety inspectors, border patrol agents and countless other government

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The Republican Tax Panic

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - The GOP should negotiate with Obama, not each other.

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GOP Counters on Budget

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Janet Hook, Carol E. Lee, Damian Paletta - Dec. 04 (News Report) - House Republicans made a new deficit proposal to the White House that calls for $800 billion in tax increases, half of what President Obama proposed and an amount Republicans say could be achieved without raising tax rates

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John Boehner’s Hostage Crisis

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - In the past week or two, there's been crowing on the left about anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist's slipping influence, as a small—emphasis on small—number of congressional Republicans murmur that they might accept a tax/spending deal that includes a hike in rates for the wealthy. For years, Norquist has been the whip of the conservative movement, leaning on GOP candidates and legislators to commit to and stand by a no-tax pledge and acting as prosecutor, judge, and jury whenever any Republican considered any initiative that might possibly be characterized as a tax increase. But as President Barack Obama bargains (toughly) with House Speaker John Boehner as the fiscal cliff (or bump) nears, Norquist, his cachet waning or not, is not Boehner's problem. He is not the force that is preventing the speaker from striking a deal with an electorally energized Obama. The true obstacle is Boehner's own comrades: those scores of tea partiers in the House Republican caucus who detest ...

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John Boehner: Congress 'Never Going To Give Up' Debt Ceiling Powers

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Dec. 03 (News Analysis) - John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that giving the president control of the debt ceiling is "silliness." "Congress is never going to give up this power," the...

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Time to Call the President's Budget Bluff

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Keith Hennessey - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - Republicans have more leverage than they imagine, if they play their cards carefully.

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Saxby Chambliss: One more Republican breaks ranks over anti-tax pledge

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Nov. 25 (News Report) - Republicans are grappling with growing rifts in their ranks over a pledge to never raise taxes that has been rock solid for more than 20 years. That shift could determine how Congress deals with its looming 'fiscal cliff.' ...

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How President Obama can win over Congress (+ video)

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Nov. 10 (Opinion) - He may have won the election, but now President Obama faces enormous challenges in the House and Senate – among Republicans and Democrats. To succeed, he must do what does not come naturally to him: Spend lots of quality time with lawmakers of both parties. ...

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Transformers 2

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Sep. 07 (Editorial) - Obama was honest when he said he wanted to remake America.

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