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The lapdog media
David Gregory’s Sunday interview with President Obama was typical of the softball, ineffective mainstream media encounters with the president we’ve been seeing. We can argue whether media personalities...
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‘Fiscal-cliff’ resolution
It appears that Republicans and Democrats, under the auspices of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice President Biden, have reached a deal on the tax aspects of the “fiscal cliff” centered on tax...
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Morning Bits
A new Senate report on Benghazi goes beyond the State Department and ”spreads the blame more widely, finding fault with the Pentagon and White House.” Now we need the president to explain what he knew...
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McConnell and Biden to the rescue; the grandstanders holler
By a vote of 89 to 8 to approve a fiscal deal, the Senate demonstrated that President Obama surely is the most incompetent if not counterproductive deal-maker in an era that requires a good one. Sen....
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To govern or not?
At 5:15 p.m., House Republicans were to meet to decide what to do: Pass the Senate “fiscal cliff” package or do something else. The something else in this case presumably would be adding spending cuts,...
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Lessons learned in fiscal follies
No one said lawmaking was pretty. But in the last few days we’ve seen wily veterans (e.g. Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner) figure a path to sanity,...
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What leaders do: Cast tough votes
In the end the House vote wasn’t all that close (257-167) to pass the Senate’s fiscal cliff compromise. There were 85 Republicans, including the speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep....
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Why the left got taken to the cleaners
Conservatives are bemoaning an agreement that made permanent nearly all the Bush tax cuts, kept the vast majority of estates permanently sheltered from the death tax and maintained a large differential...
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George W. Bush’s legacy grows more impressive
The retention of 98 percent of the Bush tax cuts by the most liberal president to hold office reminds us that a mere four years after leaving office, George W. Bush has a legacy that is becoming more...
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Getting Ryan right
Many political reporters see every event as a horse race. Who is ahead? Who’s behind? Whose team are you on? Unfortunately, they miss a lot or misread a lot. The failure to take seriously deep...
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John Boehner and the 72 percent
A source in the room tells Right Turn that this morning, at a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) talked to members about using the debt limit as...
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In his Super Bowl day interview on CBS, President Obama said “I don’t think the issue right now is raising rates. There is no doubt we need additional revenue, coupled with smart spending reductions in...
View ArticleWhite House sequester antics
In 2011 the White House insisted a sequester mechanism be included in the Budget Control Act. Today the president proposed delaying the sequester yet again in exchange for tax hikes and other cuts....
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