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Tea Party Rallies to Keep GOP Cutting Spending
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The tea partyers who helped drive GOP gains in the last election rallied in the city they love to hate Thursday, urging Republican House leaders - Speaker John Boehner above all - to resist the drive toward compromise in the protracted fight over the federal budget. Even, they say, if that means Congress fails to do its most important job: pay for the government. "Cut it or shut it!" several hundred tea partyers chanted from their gathering place outside in the rain. But across Constitution Avenue and inside the Capitol's thick walls, the lawmakers themselves huddled over the ...
Senate Sends 3-Week Funding Bill to Obama
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Congress has approved $6 billion in spending cuts as part of legislation to keep the government running for three more weeks and give President Barack Obama and congressional leaders time to negotiate a far more sweeping package of reductions demanded by Republicans. The bill easily passed the Senate by a 87-13 vote, but patience is running out on both sides with stopgap funding measures that keep the government open for two or three weeks at a time. The White House and Capitol Hill Republicans remain far apart on larger legislation to cover the day-to-day operations of the ...
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Enough With Budget Brinksmanship: The Case for Waiting Until 2012
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWith the government living on a two-week financial reprieve that will expire on March 18, this is Rumpelstiltskin time in politics as everyone seems to be stamping his feet in rage over the $14-trillion national debt. Republican Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is making the rounds with charts entitled "Reckless Spending Spree" and "Tidal Wave of Debt." In a clarion-call address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Indiana GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels warned of "the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink." Talking to a convention of religious broadcasters ...
'Feelings Thermometer': Michelle Obama Ranks 'Warmest' With Voters, Pelosi 'Coldest'
By not in system - AOL NewsEveryone is used to the familiar "horse race" poll that tells us who is out front when it comes to a campaign, but Quinnipiac University has a different measure for some of today's leading political personalities: namely, who ranks the "warmest" and "coldest" on a "feelings thermometer"? ...
No Progress on Budget After Biden Huddles With Boehner, Other Hill Leaders
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe White House dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to Capitol Hill Thursday in an effort to bring feuding Democrats and Republicans to the negotiating table over funding the federal government through Sept. 30. But an hour after Biden went behind closed doors with the Hill's "Big Four" -- House Speaker John Boehner, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- the participants emerged with little more than an agreement to allow the Senate to vote on the parties' wildly divergent budget-cutting proposals and an unusually short ...
Reid Rejects House GOP's Plan for Budget Extension, $4 Billion in Cuts
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyInstead of a government shutdown next week, Congress could be headed for another stopgap budget to allow more time for compromise on sizable cuts in 2011 spending. But a showdown continues to loom. House Republican leaders are dangling a two-week budget extension to March 18 with $4 billion in reductions in spending, The Hill reports. Senate Democrats are more interested in a one-month plan that would keep spending at current levels. Related Stories House Cuts Deep Into Spending as Budget Battle Moves to Senate The action picks up next week when the Senate ...
Behind Obama's Bouquets to Fox's Bill O'Reilly and Chamber of Commerce
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIt's fitting that with only a week until Valentine's Day, President Obama is focused on romance -- the political kind. Next Monday, the commander in chief is set to present his budget to Congress. Before he delivers it, he's making every effort to woo conservative critics -- taking to previously hostile airwaves and microphones to deliver, Cupid-style, verbal arrows dipped in bipartisan rhetoric, aimed at the nearest naysayers. Will they fall for him? Beginning with his prime-time interview with Fox news anchor Bill O'Reilly on Superbowl Sunday and followed by an appearance at the U.S. ...
Stalled Judicial Nominations Move Forward Following Agreement by Reid, McConnell
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn one of the first efforts at bipartisan goodwill -- or just plain cooperation -- the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday agreed to move forward 11 judicial nominations that had been languishing since the last session of Congress. Though all of the nominees were deemed "noncontroversial," the move was seen as the first step in a deal made late last month between Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in the hope of creating a less divided, more efficient upper house. Reform-minded advocates in the Senate have been pressing for official rules ...
Reagan Remembered: Courage in Seeking Freedom
By not in system - AOL NewsOne hundred years after his birth, 30 years after his inauguration as president and only seven years after his passing, it's already widely acknowledged by both Democrats and Republicans that Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president. His role in ending the Cold War, with America victorious and the forces of Marxism-Leninism, as he so eloquently put it, "on the ash heap of history," has been assured. You could almost say we are all Reaganites now. But it seems many just didn't understand Reagan's vision at the time. Not just his communist adversaries. Not just his political ...
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