JANUARY 7, 2011 The New Party of No Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon be blocking, obstructing or deterring nearly all the reforms the Republican House sends to the Senate. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may yet rue the day he helped popularize the phrase “The Party of No.” It never […]
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 7, 2011 GOP Governors Seek Leeway to Cut Medicaid Rolls By JANET ADAMY Republican governors are pressing the Obama administration to make it easier for states to cut Medicaid enrollment, setting up a fight over one of states’ costliest programs. On Friday, 33 Republican governors and governors-elect plan to send a
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Final Tab for Pelosi’s Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt—Or $3.66 Billion Per Day Thursday, January 06, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) – In the 1,461 days that Rep. Nancy
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NEW YORK POST January 6, 2011 Charles Gasparino I Have seen the future, and it doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong: New Year’s in beautiful Barcelona was a blast. Spain is a great vacation spot, with good food and gorgeous women — but nobody seems to be working outside the tourist areas. The reason is
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Dear MoveOn member, “Look, I know MoveOn usually works on national issues, but the Republicans have taken over, and we really need your help.” That was the message I got last week from a leading progressive in the state legislature in my home state of Maine. I could hear the urgency in her voice—and we’re
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January 4, 2011 Budget Hawk Eyes Deficit By DAVID LEONHARDT Indianapolis Of all the Republicans talking about the deficit these days, Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has arguably the most credibility. Congressional Republicans have spent much of the last decade voting for tax cuts and spending increases, all the while giving speeches decrying the
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THE GAME JANUARY 4, 2011 By DENNIS K. BERMAN Land values soared. States splurged on new programs. Then it all went bust, bringing down banks and state governments with them. This wasn’t America in 2011, it was America in 1841, when a now-forgotten depression pushed eight states and a desolate territory called Florida into the
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JANUARY 4, 2011 The House GOP is making it harder to tax and spend. House Republicans are pledging to cut spending, and one early sign they’re serious is the rules package they are bringing to the House floor tomorrow. More than the last time it held power, the GOP is changing the rules to make
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JANUARY 4, 2011 The House Republican majority has said it will require members to cite the specific authority for any bill they introduce. By ROGER PILON If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the tea party’s cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come on Thursday, when the first
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JANUARY 4, 2011 Private-sector union workers begin to notice that their job prospects are at risk from public-employee union contracts. By WILLIAM MCGURN Jeffrey Brown of PBS’s “NewsHour” recently summed up the year’s economic performance by invoking the most overworked chestnut of modern American punditry: “the disconnect . . . between Main Street and Wall
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