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BUDGET SHELL GAMES ARE CONTRARY TO LAW

JULY 14, 2011 Congressional rules require public proposals and specific numbers that can be openly debated. By MICHAEL W. MCCONNELLMr. McConnell was assistant general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981-83 and is now a professor of constitutional law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. After sending

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THE DISAPPEARING RECOVERY

JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would

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U.S. TOO DUMB TO KNOW OBAMA IS ALWAYS RIGHT

, Jul. 13, 2011,  By MICHAEL GOODWIN July 13, 2011 When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an

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DEBT-LIMIT HARAKIRI

JULY 13, 2011 Mitch McConnell isn’t selling out Republicans. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he’s concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him? We’ve never thought the debt ceiling was the best leverage for a showdown

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OBAMA RAISING TAXES IN 2013

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WISCONSIN’S CONTROVERSIAL BUDGET LAW BEGINS TO PAY OFF

July 12, 2011 By Byron York 7/12/2011 “This is a disaster,” Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, said in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective-bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law — a charge repeated thousands

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OBAMACARE – TAXES UPON TAXES UPON…..

JULY 11, 2011 Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . . Obama wants $1 trillion in taxes on top of what he’s already signed. So the fondest Washington hopes for a grand debt-limit deal have broken down over taxes. House Speaker John Boehner said late Saturday that he couldn’t move ahead with a $4 trillion deal

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