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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 ...
Taking Republicans' Presidential Pulse at a Political Reality Show
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyDuring the more than three decades of my misbegotten adolescence covering presidential politics, I have grown exasperated with the ersatz measures of candidate popularity and momentum that fill the news void until the primaries. Before you object -- no, this is not a premature lament. Less than two weeks ago, the press waited eagerly for the results of a self-selected 2012 straw poll at the self-selected Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington before seeing their GOP trend stories deflated when Ron Paul won. The Gallup Poll in early February measured national Republican ...
Palin Op-Ed Blasts Obama: A Prelude to 2012?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThere are at least two possibilities. Either Sarah Palin is a very quick learner or she employs a really good ghostwriter. Even if it's the latter, she's demonstrated with an op-ed article in the Washington Post Tuesday that she's not the total dunce many of us have pictured. ...
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