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Published: 01/25/11

Far From Humble Republicans Prep for the State of the Union

By David Corn

Republicans seem a tad cocky these days. After repealing President Obama's health care law -- I mean, voting symbolically to repeal it -- they are claiming this week that they have already rescued the economy, and they are highlighting their party's most unpopular positions without concern for ...

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Published: 12/8/10

Senior Citizen Bonus Payments Nixed by U.S. House

By Tom Diemer

The check is NOT in the mail. The U.S. House fell short Wednesday in a bid to provide America's senior citizens with onetime payments of $250 next year to make up for not receiving Social Security cost of living increases this year and again in 2011. President Obama and Democratic leaders favored ...

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Published: 11/30/10

Public Favors Spending Cuts to Reduce Deficit, but the Question Is What to Trim

By Bruce Drake

Rising concern over the size of the federal deficit was a drum that Republican leaders beat through the midterm election campaign, and that concern clearly helped motivate President Obama's decision Monday to freeze the pay of all federal civilian employees for the next two years, although the ...

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Published: 11/18/10

On the Table for the Holidays, Countless Unwelcome Ways to Tighten Our Belts

By Jill Lawrence

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Washington is serving up multiple deficit-reduction plans to an ungrateful nation. The rating system of, by and for the people seems to run a narrow gamut from starter course (as in 'needs wholesale changes') to completely indigestible. True, we are only a couple of ...

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Published: 11/15/10

John Heilemann's Theory on Why Democrats Won't Fix Social Security

By Matt Lewis

The full 18-member deficit reduction commission has yet to vote on it, but the two chairmen of the bipartisan group President Obama's appointed -- former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson -- released their proposal last week. One part of the plan ...

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Published: 10/15/10

Would Compassionate Conservative George W. Bush Recognize His Party?

By Jill Lawrence

LAS VEGAS – George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative just a decade ago, but it seems like forever. We're now into an era of what might you might call Darwinian conservatism -- a fend-for-yourself philosophy advanced by people who are skeptical about federal help, at ...

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Published: 10/15/10

Social Security Set for Second Year With No Cost of Living Hike

By Tom Diemer

For a second consecutive year, some 58 million older and disabled Americans who get Social Security benefits will not receive a cost of living adjustments in their monthly checks. The announcement Friday by the Labor Department that inflation rose by a tiny 0.1 percent in September cinched it. ...

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Published: 10/12/10

Poll: Mortgage Industry, Wall Street and Bush Most to Blame for Economy

By Bruce Drake

The mortgage industry, Wall Street financial firms and banks, and former President Bush top the list that Americans say did most to hurt the U.S. economy, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Oct. 7-10. Bloomberg asked the question this way: The U.S. avoided what many experts said ...

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Published: 10/11/10

Colorado Senate Candidates Face Off Over Social Security, Ads, Taxes

By Sandra Fish

Colorado Senate Candidates Face Off Over Negative Ads, Social Security DENVER -- Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and his Republican opponent, Ken Buck, sparred Monday over the economy, tax cuts, the deficit and health care at the first of three debates this week. Monday's event, sponsored by 9News ...

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Published: 10/10/10