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By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyThe New York Times is reporting that Peter Orszag will step down as White House budget director in July. The move itself is not big news -- Orszag never planned to stay at the post for more than two years, even though President Barack Obama asked him to -- but its consequences bear watching. Increasingly, Orszag had voiced concerns about the growing size of the deficit and how it would be affected by continued stimulus measures, and it will be interesting to see whether the Obama administration addresses these concerns when it draws up its next budget. Deficit reduction is a cause celebre ...
Feminism: The Belief That You Own Your Body and Are Man's Equal
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIt wasn't too long ago that the word "feminism" or "feminist" had nearly vanished from our everyday chatter, consigned to the dust bin of passé labels. But here it is right back, rearing its many heads, pitting nice and sensible women against one another. The moment Sarah Palin revived the term "feminist" and injected it into the current political debate, laying claim to its mantle and hailing conservative Republican female candidates -- she calls them "mama grizzlies" -- as an "emerging, conservative, feminist identity," we all went a little bit out of our minds. Those "mama grizzlies" are ...
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
By David Corn - Politics DailyBring it on. Conservative apologists for the George W. Bush crew are swinging hard these days to defend their man -- and themselves -- from the charge that W. and his gang misled the nation into war. They must worry that they are going to end up on the wrong side of history. After all, a 2008 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of Americans believed that the Bush administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." (This was a big change from a poll taken two months after the 2003 invasion that noted that 67 percent believed that Bush had ...
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