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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
The Daily Wrap
Today on the Dish, the dust settled and Andrew stood by his support of the stop-gap deal, especially since it would finally force the GOP to make tough defense cuts. Readers reacted to Obama's pyrrhic defeat, some heard a liberal...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
About Those Defense Cuts
A reality check: Adjusted for inflation, the United States spent at most $580 billion a year on defense at the height of the Cold War. In the 2011 fiscal year, the Pentagon's baseline budget is $549 billion, with another $159...
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What If Obama Hadn't Compromised?
Joe Klein thinks Obama was right to rule out the constitutional option: If he had cited the 14th Amendment and simply ordered Treasury to pay the bills, he would have been impeached by the radical Republicans. This would have guaranteed...
BLITZER'S BLOG: Debate is just beginning
Washington (CNN) - If you liked the debt ceiling debate of recent days, you probably will love the debate that...
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Monday, August 1, 2011
A tea party debt limit rebellion? Hardly
For months now, the prevailing narrative of the debt ceiling debate has centered on how tea party freshmen forced the Republican Party into a hard-line position.
And that story, quite simply, it?s wrong. Or at least, it?s not quite so simple.
While the tea party and the larger GOP freshmen class have certainly forced the broader Republican Party to reevaluate its priorities and move toward a more fiscally conservative posture, the conservative opposition to a debt limit deal was never strictly rooted in either the tea party or newly-elected Republicans.
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