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Obama's Budget Proposal -- and the Coming War With Republicans
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAfter several weeks warming up the decks for his Valentine's Day offering, President Obama presented on Monday his proposed 2012 budget of $3.7 trillion, which he said will cut the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. Not surprisingly, Republicans, and many Democrats, were not feeling the love. "The president's budget will destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing too much, and borrowing too much," Speaker John Boehner said in a release Monday morning, repeating what he said a day earlier on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." Paul Ryan, chair of the House Budget ...
Tax-Cut Deal: If It's Good for Regular Americans, Isn't That Good Enough for Now?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily"Absolute disaster." "Legislative blackmail." "Almost moral corruptness." We get it. Democrats in Congress really, really don't like President Obama's tax deal with the Republicans. But is it truly as apocalyptically bad as all that? Please, people, take a deep breath, step back and stop working yourselves into a lather about cave-ins and core principles and lines in the sand. Earlier this week, I said we should wait to see what Obama got from Republicans in tax negotiations before convicting him of terminal wimpiness. He may have dispelled that image at his combative news conference Tuesday ...
Tax Cut Deal: Yet Another Thing Liberals Hate About Obama
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- President Barack Obama has struck a tentative deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts -- and liberals are furious. While some pundits see the compromise as a necessary evil that still yielded some results for Democrats, many are attacking the president for giving ground to the GOP on yet another key issue. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is even going so far as to threaten a filibuster. "President Obama has shown a complete refusal to fight Republicans throughout his presidency even when the public is on his side, " Adam Greene, co-founder of the Progressive Change ...
Memo to the Left: The Public Health Insurance Option Is Dead, Get Over It
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAs the climactic votes approach this week on health care, some groups on the left seem more interested in throwing a wrench into the process than putting a landmark law on the books. MoveOn.org is in the latter camp. It is asking its 5 million members to back primary challengers to Democrats who don't support the reform package, and at least one union is sending similar signals. MoveOn also is running an ad featuring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Which side of history will you be on?" it asks. The spot starts Tuesday on ...
Liberals Claim 51 Votes for Public Option in Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThree groups pushing for a public insurance option in health care reform--the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo Action--launched a television ad Monday going after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not including a public option in the health care legislation being considered by the House this week. The ad, which will run on MSNBC, CNN and a local San Francisco affiliate, begins by saying, "Speaker Pelosi says the Senate lacks the votes for the public option," and then shows Arianna Huffington rightly stating that 41 senators have signed a letter circulated ...
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