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Austerity Grand Bargain Feared Between Republicans, White House
Robert Kuttner articulated a growing rumor that’s been floating around in liberal circles, something that the Obama Administration has actually telegraphed since the beginning of the Presidential term:...
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Warner-Chambliss: The New Catfood
Senators Mark Warner and Saxby Chambliss have re-animated the Catfood Commission, and plan to introduce a bill based on its recommendations in the next Congress. Two senators pledged on Monday to offer...
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Warner-Chambliss Calls for $4 Trillion in Deficit Reduction
The reason I’m tickled by the President’s State of the Union message is that I see the potential alternative, one that nods to an austere deficit reduction document like what Mark Warner and Saxby...
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Grand Bargain Republicans Take Tax Increases Off the Table
You may have heard about the power play by leading Senate Democrats to stop Dick Durbin from negotiating on Social Security in the “grand bargain” Gang of Six talks. But there was also some power play...
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Warner, Chambliss Go Public with Their Cat Food Road Show
We already knew plenty about Warner-Chambliss, the move by two Senators to revive the cat food commission and push through the Bowles-Simpson report. Bowles and Simpson are giving them a hand with that...
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Gang of Eight Discusses Six-Month Punt for Fiscal Cliff
Yesterday, John Boehner appeared to wave a white flag on talks aimed at resolving the fiscal cliff. Harry Reid reacted to that with disappointment, saying that there’s still time for a deficit...
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CEO’s Bold Plan to Fix the Debt By Lowering Their Own Taxes
Mark Warner and Saxby Chambliss are the two Senators most hopeful of replacing Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson should they ever die or meet a poor person and get a spark of empathy. Warner and...
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The Grand Confusion: The “Fiscal Cliff” Is an Austerity Program
Obama wants this deal for his legacy Paul Krugman explains the problem for all of the deficit scolds trying to use the fiscal it’s-not-a-cliff cliff as a forcing mechanism to cut the social safety net....
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The Norquist Rebellion: Not Actually News
News flash: Grover Norquist still opposes tax hikes The big story I’m supposed to chase today concerns Republican legislative figures distancing themselves from the Grover Norquist pledge, opening the...
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Of Course the Norquist/GOP Story Was Bunk, Cont’d
I don’t feel like it needs to be reiterated from earlier today, but this flood of commentary about whether Republicans announced a trial separation from Grover Norquist was so overblown. And Saxby...
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