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Top White House aide: GOP must cooperate on budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Sunday warned Republicans that a "my way or the highway" approach would spell the GOP's defeat in upcoming budget negotiations and told its Democratic allies that they, too, will have to bend on President...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Elections, NBC (tv network)
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Obama will propose cuts to entitlement programs in new budget
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – As part of his new budget, President Obama will propose cutting Social Security and other government benefits by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment, putting a key GOP negotiating demand into a formal White House proposal for the...Tags: Consumers, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Elections, Public Finance
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Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-...
Tags: Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Unemployment Benefits
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One date is not enough: Obama to dine again with GOP senators
WASHINGTON – President Obama is taking Senate Republicans on another date night. Following his successful dinner earlier this month with a dozen GOP senators, during which they discussed budgets, the president has dialed up his ideological...Tags: Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, POLITICO LLC
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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Fiscal Cliff
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GOP approves Paul Ryan's austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – The austere House budget drafted by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that has come to define the Republican Party was approved Thursday on a strict party-line vote, as the GOP argues that a balanced budget should now be Washington’s top...
Tags: Government Health Care, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Barack Obama, Taxation, Budgets and Budgeting
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Don Young's racist slur not good for GOP's minority outreach
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Republican elected official who casually uses the racist term “wetbacks” during a radio interview is a dunderhead of the first magnitude. “My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60...Tags: Los Angeles Times Journalists, Tomatoes, Radio Industry, Radio, George W. Bush
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Republicans rediscover tolerance
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers put the finishing touches on an immigration deal, veteran Rep. Don Young decided this would be a good time to come out with an immigration plan of his own. His involves calling Latino immigrants "wetbacks." For Young, now in...
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Elections, Joe Scarborough, Richard Mourdock, Rush Limbaugh
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Why 'chained CPI' works for Social Security [Blowback]
In his March 22 blog post criticizing proposals to switch from the consumer price index to "chained CPI" to determine cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries and other items in the federal budget, Michael Hiltzik claimed that there...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Public Finance, Personal Income, Market and Exchange
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elections, Harry Reid, Mitt Romney
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Dems go weak at the end of great week
What a great week it had been for Democrats. President Barack Obama delivered a bold, confrontational second inaugural address Monday that underscored numerous popular liberal initiatives. New polling data showed very strong public support for the...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Medicaid, Foods and Beverages, Hillary Clinton, Social Issues
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Republicans trying to find their way should visit Illinois
With President Barack Obama embarking on his second term, the Republicans have proceeded through their stages of grief: •Denial. (He's just a wacky socialist.) •Anger. (He was born in Kenya.) •Bargaining. (Not all rich guys who sell...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Parties and Movements, Comedy Central (tv network), Democratic Party
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Apr 2, 2013
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Jan 7, 2013
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Jan 27, 2013
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Jan 27, 2013
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