Archive for the ‘medicare’ Category
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The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
Posted on July 26, 2011
President Obama has not been shy lately in trying to use the power of the bully pulpit to get his way on Capitol Hill. It is not clear that his...
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CLASS Act
Posted on July 22, 2011
In these days of intense partisanship and over-the-top rhetoric, it is somehow appropriate that the one thing that Congress would agree to repeal is the CLASS Act. It goes without...
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Shared Sacrifice
Posted on July 11, 2011
In the context of the debt limit, Democrats have been pushing for tax increases because they want to punish the rich. They believe that because the so-called rich pay only...
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DeMint The Moderate
Posted on July 8, 2011
Is Jim DeMint becoming a moderate? I ask that question because his insistence that a balanced budget amendment be included in any extension of the debt limit is not really...
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A Crack in the Windshield
Posted on June 29, 2011
About a year ago, as I was driving, a small rock that was kicked up by the truck I was following hit my windshield and put a little crack in...
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