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Obama to ask for increase in debt ceiling
Seeded on Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:51 PM EST (The Washington Post)
The action would raise the country’s debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion from $15.2 trillion.
Obama: The conservative in 2012
Seeded on Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:25 AM EST (The Washington Post)
Obama will thus be the conservative in 2012, in the truest sense of that word. He is the candidate defending the modestly redistributive and regulatory government the country has relied on since the New Deal, and that neither Ronald Reagan nor George W. Bush dismantled.
How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much
Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:15 PM EST (Forbes)
In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour.
CBO: We'll only have giant deficits if Congress wants giant deficits - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Seeded on Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:44 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
This is a good time to remind everyone that when you hear politicians telling you that their plan cuts taxes or balances the budget, you always need to ask what baseline they’re using.
The hard truth about health care - The Washington Post
Seeded on Wed Jun 8, 2011 10:37 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Everyone in Washington claims to want the same thing lately: a “serious conversation” about health-care costs. So let’s have one. Republicans have a plan that has been tried repeatedly but that has never worked.
The GOP's dueling delusional campaign ads
Seeded on Thu Jun 2, 2011 8:05 AM EDT (The Week)
Does Monty Python produce attack ads? Because this slickly produced ad attacking GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman sure looks like a joke. The ad accuses Huntsman of (1) worrying about excessive partisanship; (2) wanting to put a price on carbon emissions; (3) descri …
GRAPH: While Slashing Aid To Main Street, GOP Budget Drops Tax Rate For Richest To Lowest In 80 Years | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Wed Jun 1, 2011 9:10 AM EDT (Think Progress)
Across the country, the House Republican budget plan — designed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — has faced the ire of Main Street Americans, who are outraged that it effectively ends Medicare.
Detroit-area Arab Americans, Muslims rejoice at death of bin Laden | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Seeded on Mon May 2, 2011 9:46 AM EDT (The Detroit Free Press)
Muslims and Arab-Americans across metro Detroit -- greatly impacted by the war on terrorism over the past decade -- rejoiced at the news that Osama bin Laden was killed. "The world is definitely a better place without the patron of all terrorists," said Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, h …
Shh! New AP Poll Has Obama Approval Rating At 53%
Seeded on Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:14 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)
There's no need to distract the press regarding the latest findings from the AP-GfK poll. Y'know, the one that has Obama's approval rating at a robust 53 percent.
CHARLES FRIED TELLS THE GOP WHAT IT DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR....
Seeded on Wed Feb 2, 2011 3:23 PM EST (Political Animal)
Harvard law professor Charles Fried, President Reagan's Solicitor General, doesn't love the Affordable Care Act, and isn't convinced it will work. But as a constitutional matter, Fried has no use for the right's arguments.
So why *wasn't* this a "Second Amendment remedy"?
Seeded on Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:19 AM EST (Daily Kos)
My interest is: can they (the Tea Party) disavow his actions -- categorically? Is what he did fundamentally wrong, in their eyes? Or did he just choose the wrong target? The wrong time? The wrong place -- what with all those people around? They're sorry, they're sorry, they' …
Support for health reform reaches high in Kaiser poll
Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:52 AM EDT (TheHill.com)
The more that people get to know about our new health care law, they more people like it. 27 percent of the public wants the law repealed.
Tea party: Dark side of conservatism
Seeded on Fri May 14, 2010 9:46 AM EDT (Politico)
When the tea partiers say they are true conservatives, there is no reason to doubt them.
Old, White and Conservative
Seeded on Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:17 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The party's over. The mystique of the Tea Party arose from uncertainty about whether its members are populist swing voters or merely disgruntled conservatives. Reagan Democrats or Fox Republicans?
Sunday's Socialist Triumph
Seeded on Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:09 PM EDT (National Review Online)
Have these people have truly lost their minds, or are they cynically manipulating the uneducated for perceived political gain. I guess it could be BOTH.
Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks
Seeded on Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:00 PM EST (Bloomberg.com)
"We've had a phenomenal run in asset classes across the board," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist for Miller Tabak & Co. in New York.
Dobbs, Beck, Palin, Bachmann Share Blame For Rise in Right-Wing Extremism, Says Activist Group
Seeded on Thu Mar 4, 2010 3:43 PM EST (ABC News)
The latest annual SPLC report, "Rage on the Right," claims there has been a startling rise in numbers of extremist groups, particularly in the Patriot movement and militias, the paramilitary branches of these Patriot groups.
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HuffPo 2012 Presidential Electoral Map | Obama 294 - Romney 170WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are in a statistical dead heat in Ohio, Virginia and 10 other states up for grabs in the 2012 election, according to a poll released on Monday. The poll by Gallup Inc. andUSA Today showed Obama …
- Poll shows Obama increasing lead over Romney, helped by independents
Obama was backed by 49 percent of registered voters in a [Reuters/Ipsos] telephone poll conducted from May 3-7, compared to 42 percent who supported his likely rival in November's presidential election. In April, the poll showed Obama leading Romney 47 percent to 43 percent. T …
- Mitt Romney Campaign Slogan: 'We're Not Stupid' (Seriously!)
This week there has been a swirling mini-controversy surrounding the use of the word "Forward" in a new web video posted on Barack Obama's campaign site. The Right-Wing Noise Machine sprung into action to assert that there was some sort of connection between that word and its u …
- A LONG List of President Obama's Accomplishments! With Citations!
If you're one of those folks who thinks President Obama is a "disappointment," you haven't been paying attention the last few years. And those of you who try to draw comparisons with the Bush Administration should put away the hallucinogens and have your memory checked.
- Paul Ryan Flip Flops on Ayn Rand: 'I Reject Her Philosophy'
In 2005, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is “virtue”.
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