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President Obama should show GOP that two can play at debt-ceiling chicken
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column The way to end the recurring, preposterous fight over the debt ceiling is for President Barack Obama and the Democrats to fight crazy with crazy. I don't mean crazy as in ordering the minting of a $1...... -
Rand Paul filibuster splits GOP, Graham now supports CIA nominee
WASHINGTON – The political fallout from Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster has begun as fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham switched Thursday to support John Brennan as CIA director, saying the vote has become a “referendum” on the...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Central Intelligence Agency, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Tom Coburn, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan, U.S. Department of Defense, Ron Johnson
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Sen. Rand Paul ends marathon filibuster of John Brennan
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul ended a marathon filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA early Thursday after holding the floor for nearly 13 hours, focusing on concerns over the constitutionality of the administration’s use of...Tags: James Stewart, U.S. Department of Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Harry Reid, Crime, Law and Justice
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How to close our National Schmoozing Deficit
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that President Obama and most leading members of Congress know what a solution to the fiscal crisis looks like; they just can’t get there from here because they don’t trust one another much. Obama is trying to...
Tags: Republican Party, Aspen Institute, Fiscal Cliff, Politics, U.S. Congress
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Strikes, Religion and Belief, Career and Workplace, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made... -
Obama dismisses ‘Jedi mind meld’ to solve sequester
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAs Congress, the president and the nation grapple with the so-called sequester and the possible harrowing effects of billions of ...... -
Saturday's TV Highlights: Mitt and Ann Romney on Fox News Sunday
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES "The Graham Norton Show" Richard Gere, John...
Tags: Scott P. Brown, Holland Taylor, ABC Family (tv network), Paul C. Broun, Aaron Neville
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Officials optimistic federal government can avert shutdown
WASHINGTON — Signaling a cease-fire of sorts in Washington's bitter budget wars, Republican leaders in Congress and a senior White House official expressed optimism Sunday that they can reach a deal to avoid adding a painful government shutdown this...
Tags: National Government, Budget Control Act of 2011, NBC (tv network), Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate
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Across-the-board budget cuts are set to slice federal spending
WASHINGTON -- Across-the-board budget cuts were set to begin hitting federal agencies at midnight Friday after last-minute efforts by President Obama and congressional leaders failed to produce a compromise to forestall $85 billion in automatic reductions...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama
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No deal: Last-ditch meeting yields no new plan to avoid cuts
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and congressional leaders huddled in the Oval Office on Friday morning but the last-ditch effort failed to produce a compromise to forestall $85 billion in automatic spending cuts all sides say they want to avoid. The...Tags: White House, Republican Party, Government Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate
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