Budget for 2012

A DOWNGRADE AWAKENING

AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old

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THE PECULIAR MADNESS OF PAUL KRUGMAN

REAL CLEAR POLITICS August 6, 2011 By Robert Tracinski The debt deal unhinged the left. No, the Tea Parties did not win, as the left has been saying. The spending “cuts” only limit the additional growth of government, and they are too small and too distant to be worth celebrating. But the left is correct

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KRAUTHAMMER – THE GRAND BARGAIN TO BE HAD

NEWS&OBSERVER The grand bargain to be had By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group Published in: Other Views August 6, 2011 WASHINGTON Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so sure. There is a grand compromise to be had.

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NOW THE HARD WORK MUST BEGIN

Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Thu, Aug 04, 2011 Bowles and Simpson: Now the hard work must begin BY ERSKINE BOWLES AND ALAN SIMPSON – The New York Times Last month, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders came close to an agreement that could have set our nation on a sound

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OBAMA AND THE NARCISSISM OF BIG DIFFERENCES

AUGUST 6, 2011 ‘He becomes visibly agitated. . . . He does not like to be challenged on policy grounds,’ says the House majority leader of the president. By JOSEPH RAGO New York Whatever the rhetoric that preceded this week’s deal, the debt-ceiling debate was never really about the debt at all. It was about

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THE OBAMA DOWNGRADE, ALPHABETICALLY

AUGUST 2, 2011 H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president. By BRET STEPHENS Snapshots from President Obama’s efforts to improve America’s standing in the world, 923 days into his administration: A is for the Arab world, and our standing in it: This year, Zogby International found that 5% of Egyptians had

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PAUL RYAN – WHERE’S YOUR BUDGET, MR. PRESIDENT?

AUGUST 3, 2011 Ever since they fudged the numbers to pass ObamaCare, Democrats have abandoned credible spending plans. By PAUL RYAN During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases. Republicans in Congress ignored this threat and

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