Assad has been slaughtering innocents for months. Why draw the line at poison gas?
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A Modest Proposition
This week’s print column: How you can mesh Obamacare with Medicare, save money and improve health care–and get Republican support.
Jim DeMint to Resign Senate Seat for Heritage Foundation
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, an ardent voice for conservative principles, announced Thursday that he is resigning from Congress to become president of the Heritage Foundation, a top conservative think tank in Washington.
Paul Ryan’s Rough Return
Paul Ryan’s in a bind. Even as he’s being touted as the great white hope for the GOP in 2016, he’s voluntarily strapped himself to the party’s fast-sinking position on the fiscal cliff as a member of House Speaker John Boe …
Susan Rice and the Modern Secretary of State
With the days of grand strategy long gone, talking points happen to be a big part of the job
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Whither the Repubs?
Lamar Alexander. Saxby Chambliss. Lindsey Graham. What do they have in common? Well, they’re all members of the Republican Senate sanity caucus (except for Graham’s occasional flights of neocon fantasy). And each may be facing a crazy-nut rightwing challenge in 2014.
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Obama Won’t Budge on Top Tax Rates
Barack Obama dug in Tuesday on his demand that any bargain to avert the so-called fiscal cliff include an agreement to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, warning that a deal would not be reached before the Jan. 1 deadline un …
A Response to David Frum, Who Seems to Like the Obama Stimulus Better Than He Thinks He Does
Frum’s double whack at The New New Deal raises legitimate questions about green industrial policy.
A Colorful Governor’s Race Takes Shape in Virginia
One of the premier elections of 2013 is taking shape in Virginia, where a conservative firebrand appears set to square off against an Establishment Democrat for the governorship.
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Things We REALLY Need to Start Talking About
Barack Obama’s victory–which becomes more pronounced every day, as the final votes are counted–has obviously opened the door to a negotiation over tax increases, in which the Republicans will have to make concessions. But there are other formerly taboo subjects that need to be discussed in Washington.
Washington’s Lemmings Head for the Fiscal Cliff
The incentives are lined up for the White House and Congress to miss their self-imposed Dec. 31 deadline.
‘Cliff’ Talks: White House Waiting on GOP Move
(WASHINGTON) — Republicans have to stop using “political math” and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Sunday.
Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It
Mainstream media outlets don’t want to look partisan, so they ignore the BS hidden in plain sight.
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How to Negotiate
The Republicans are, reportedly, outraged by President Obama’s opening bid in the fiscal cliff talks. Republicans always seem to be outraged. It’s getting boring. They need to step up and make a counter-offer.
