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Senate Farewells Sound Familiar Warning: Partisanship Is Ruining Us
By Linda Killian - Politics DailyOver the past few weeks, many of those leaving the U.S. Senate -- either voluntarily or by defeat -- have given a farewell address, something of a Senate tradition. The speeches have been remarkable for their similarity. Not in terms of thanking staff and family members and recounting memorable moments or greatest hits of a legislative career. Most of the senators did those things. Rather, they have been remarkable for the warning most of them have sounded about the dismal state of the nation's body politic. Intense partisanship. The lost art of compromise. The vast sums of cash needed ...
Opinion: 6 Hidden Gems in the Deficit Commission Report
By John Merline - AOL News
(Dec. 2) -- The title of the bipartisan deficit commission's final report is "The Moment of Truth." And it's meant to set the stakes for what must be done to cope with the nation's gargantuan and growing pile of debt. "We cannot play games or put off hard choices any longer," says the preamble. "Our challenge is clear and inescapable: America cannot be great if we go broke." But while everyone will no doubt focus on the plan's seemingly controversial proposals, what's likely to get overlooked are several truths the report reveals about the federal government, health reform, the tax code and ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
New Hampshire Voters May Not Fully Embrace a GOP Wave
By Linda Killian - Politics DailyMANCHESTER, N.H. -- Voters in New Hampshire are known for their independence, their discriminative natures when it comes to political candidates, and their unpredictability. All of those attributes could be on display here Tuesday. Despite the national trend that is expected to sweep Republicans into office, the most recent polling indicates New Hampshire voters are likely to split their votes, giving their incumbent Democratic governor an unprecedented fourth consecutive term and electing a Republican woman to fill the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Judd Gregg. In the state's two House ...
Opinion: For Same-Sex Marriage Opponents, a Catch-22
By Bob Maistros - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- In Joseph Heller's famed novel, an Air Force bombardier named Yossarian and his mates are confronted with a downright Kafkaesque rule: if a pilot was crazy, he could avoid combat missions. But if he wanted to be grounded, it was clear he wasn't crazy. Thus entered into the vernacular a phrase signifying circular reasoning that traps its victims in an inescapable double-bind. Opponents of same-sex marriage, meet Catch-22. In November 2008, California citizens enacted Proposition 8, defining marriage as constituting a union between one man and one woman. In fact, the tally in ...
Obama's Budget Chief Pick Has Work Cut Out for Him
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsANALYSIS (July 13) -- Jacob Lew isn't just being tasked with balancing a budget some $1 trillion in the red. President Barack Obama's pick to be the new federal budget chief will also have to balance political demands to fund economic stimulus and job creation against political worries about runaway deficits. Obama said today he will nominate Lew to succeed Peter Orszag, the departing director of the Office of Management and Budget. If confirmed by the Senate, Lew will be charged with turning around a deficit that exceeded $1 trillion for the first nine months of the government's fiscal ...
Democrats Ready Reconciliation Plans for Health Care
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyNo matter what President Obama says in his speech Wednesday about the way forward for health care reform, Democrats know that the only path ahead of them will be technically complicated and politically close to impossible. The reality came into stark relief Tuesday at the Capitol, as Democratic leaders gamed out how to pass health care reform through reconciliation, a budget-related process that requires just 51 votes, rather than 60, to pass the Senate. It also requires the House to become deeply involved in the convoluted legislative process so that the two chambers can agree in advance on ...
The Trillion Dollar Question: Who Pays for Health Care Reform?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRepublicans made clear this morning that the single biggest obstacle to passing President Obama's health care reform will be the question of who will pay for it. Before Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) could even begin the meeting of the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee, several Republicans objected to holding the mark-up session at all. "This is the most incredible process I've ever been a part of," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Pointing to a draft of the bill, he said, "It is a joke if we run through this stack of papers without having some provision, and I suggest we postpone until ...
Sen. Chris Dodd: 'Do I Look Like a Body Snatcher?'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA little gallows humor broke out during the Senate Health Committee's mark-up of the Democrats' health care reform bill this morning.While lambasting the bill, which he said was too expensive and larded with bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, Sen. Judd Gregg said, "I'm tempted to say... that it's a bill written by Rube Goldberg, Ira Magaziner and Karl Marx."When Sen. Barbara Mikulski's (D-MD) turn came to defend the bill, she shot back, "Our current system is a combination of Adam Smith, Darth Vader and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, so I like our plan better." Amid hearty laughter in the room, Sen. ...
Conservative Bloggers Speculate on Judd Gregg for President
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyGive Adam Brickley credit. As the founder of the "Draft Sarah Palin" blog, he spotted Sarah Palin's potential a year and a half before most Americans knew who she was. His prescience earned him a lot of attention, including an appearance on Colbert, and some love from The New Yorker. So it's not surprising that his recent blog post speculating that Gregg would make an excellent VP choice quickly generated buzz. Blogger Matthew Miller jumped on the idea, taking it to the next level. He argued that Gregg should consider running for president.This, of course, sounds absurd, but should it?Consider ...
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