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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Medicare, Politics, NBC (tv network)
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Mitt's team scrambles with aftermath of FEMA comment and 'Romnesia'
Words have a way of coming back to haunt Mitt Romney, especially when he says them in front of television cameras. As the nation braced itself for Hurricane Sandy to slam into the East Coast, Romney's campaign was busily issuing denials to clean up an...
Tags: Health Insurance, Politics, Hurricane Sandy (2012), POLITICO LLC, FEMA
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: Parties and Movements, Medicare, Politics, Government Health Care, Washington, DC
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The Republicans' self-defeating war on eyeshades
What's with the green eyeshades? "I can't tell you how tired I am of Republicans who are green-eyeshade accountants," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Newsmax TV last weekend. Rep. Paul Ryan's "new budget road map is more vision than green-...Tags: Politics, Reaganomics, Government Health Care, Economic Indicator, Government Debt
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Paul Ryan's new budget is no help to Republicans
Some of Paul Ryan's biggest fans are disappointed in his latest budget. Take New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. He credits Ryan, the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, for trying to give Medicare recipients the power and the incentive to...
Tags: Medicare, Politics, Barack Obama, Government Health Care, The New York Times
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Government as old-age home
"The president is in the midst of a charm offensive." -- The Washington Post, referring to President Obama's meetings with congressional Republicans WASHINGTON -- We don't need a charm offensive; we need a candor offensive. The budget debate's central...
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Ryan budget: shooting blanks
WASHINGTON -- Paul Ryan's budget is an amazing and wondrous document. Not only does it balance the budget in 10 years while reducing tax rates, it also does so without any pain or suffering -- or even breaking a sweat. It achieves not just the...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Parties and Movements, Medicare, Politics, Government Health Care
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Charm has its limits
WASHINGTOLN -- It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a...
Tags: Bob Woodward, Parties and Movements, Politics, Medicare, NBC (tv network)
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Ryan in fantasyland
WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. You will recall that The Ryan Budget was...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Medicare, Politics, Barack Obama, Government Health Care
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McManus: The GOP's tactical retreat
A well-organized retreat is said to be one of the most difficult military maneuvers: You're under enemy fire, your troops are likely to be demoralized, and you've got to avoid a rout. That why House Republicans' orderly withdrawal last week from an...
Tags: Eric Cantor, Parties and Movements, Politics, Medicare, Bobby Jindal
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Ryan energizes GOP convention with speech attacking Obama
In the biggest speech of his still young political career, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told the Republican National Convention on Wednesday that time is running out to solve the nation's fiscal problems, but Mitt Romney and he can do it if...
Tags: John McCain, Medicare, Ron Paul, Politics, Government Health Care
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Romney arrives at condensed GOP convention
Mitt Romney arrived Tuesday at the condensed Republican National Convention in Tampa as organizers kept a nervous eye on Hurricane Isaac churning toward Louisiana's coast. The storm caused a one-day delay in the convention agenda, but Republican...
Tags: John McCain, Politics, Ron Paul, Tampa, Bobby Jindal
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