RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost « Will Money Save the Democrats? | HorseRaceBlog Home Page August 31, 2010 Health Care Reform Has Endangered the Democratic Majority –>This Politico piece by Jim VandeHei, Alex Isenstadt, and Mike Allen got a lot of play last week: Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, […]
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AUGUST 31, 2010 Social Security Bait and Switch ‘Harry, am I making this up?’ Yes, Mr. President, you are. Democrats are trying to keep control of Congress by scaring the wig off grandma with a phantom GOP plot against Social Security. That is not news. Social Security scare tactics have been regular campaign themes since
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AUGUST 22, 2010 $4.4 Trillion That’s how much the spending baseline has increased in 31 months. Speaking last Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, President Obama asked, “How do we, over the long term, get control of our deficit?” Good question. Here’s the answer suggested by last Thursday’s semi-annual budget summary from the Congressional Budget Office: Stop
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Opinion: Washington’s Endangered Species Marty Robins Contributor AOL News (Aug. 23) — If Washington seems out of ideas on how to get the private-sector jobs machine running again, there’s a pretty straightforward reason — the people in government have virtually no experience in business. In a major departure from prior administrations, you’d be hard-pressed to
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FoxNews.com – August 24, 2010 More Bad Economic News, Yet Here Comes ANOTHER Wall Street Bailout Existing home sales in July may have suffered a record drop but come September 7, President Obama will have Wall Street investment banks lining up for another huge bailout. Americans may be extremely upset about Wall Street bailouts, but
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EDITORIAL: Democratic decline Bush-league blame game can’t hide the truth By THE WASHINGTON TIMES– August 10, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, outside the White House on Thursday, calls for BP to stop making dividend payments to shareholders until it addresses economic assistance claims from businesses that have been affected by the oil spill.
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AUGUST 21, 2010 The GOP and the Temptation of Hubris If Republicans take over the House, they’d best think carefully how they use their power. Ask Newt Gingrich. By JOHN J. PITNEY JR. Republicans could still blow it, but as they head toward a likely victory in the midterm election they should consider what it
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AUGUST 21, 2010 Who’s ObamaCare’s Daddy? Now even liberals are denying paternity. “I know this is a tough vote,” President Obama told House Democrats at a March pep rally merely hours before they passed national health care. But he added that he was “actually confident” that “it will end up being the smart thing to
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AUGUST 21, 2010 America’s Insurgent Pollster Understanding the tea party is essential to predicting what the country’s political scene will look like. By JOHN FUND San Diego, Calif. You can tell it’s a volatile political year when a balding, middle-aged pollster gets a standing ovation from hundreds of state legislators after delivering the news that
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AUGUST 20, 2010 More Countrywide Loans What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us. Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse. The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named
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