Posts Tagged ‘spending’
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The McConnell Gambit
Posted on July 13, 2011
So what exactly is Mitch McConnell up to? McConnell offered a solution to the debt limit imbroglio that has been described as cynical, stupid, worthless, traitorous and worse. It may...
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The Pelosi-Bachmann Axis
Posted on July 12, 2011
Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, must be very happy with her colleague Michele Bachmann. Bachmann (R-Minn.) has stated repeatedly that she will never vote to increase the debt limit....
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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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Reductio Ad Absurdem
Posted on July 7, 2011
Reduced to the absurd. Ideologues on both sides of the philosophical divide fall dangerously into this trap. Conservatives who believe that government does not need to exist are every bit...
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