Tag Archives: Federal Taxes

The end of the Obama honeymoon?

Posted on March 21st, 2013

Posted by Chris Cillizza We’ve grappled in this space with how long President Obama’s second political honeymoon will last – and what he might be able to accomplish in that time. In the immediate aftermath of his victory last November, President Obama’s popularity surged and Republicans in Congress capitulated to him on the fiscal cliff [...]

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Tag-teaming Obama

Posted on March 5th, 2013

  Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama. The president convincingly won a second term in November, but since that time, the congressional Republican leadership has outfoxed, outmaneuvered and plain out-strategized him on just about every issue. On taxes, [...]

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Krugman: Death Panels and Middle-Class Tax Hikes Ahead

Posted on February 8th, 2013

Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama’s favorite economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where Obama’s policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a pulse. Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing [...]

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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course

Posted on December 6th, 2012

    Where in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.     A wise judge once wrote in dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Let us now extend that wisdom to presidential elections. Barack Obama says his election victory is a mandate to pursue [...]

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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives

Posted on December 5th, 2012

  Discord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher Taxes   WASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal cliff talks, a dispute that was aggravated by Mr. Boehner’s decision to remove some conservatives from prized committees. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., [...]

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Elected, but Still Campaigning

Posted on November 27th, 2012

  Obama Steps Up Effort to Rally Support for Fiscal Plan, Will Meet With CEOs     WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is ramping up the White House’s postelection effort to generate public support for his preferred package of tax increases and spending cuts. Mr. Obama, while standing firm on his viewpoint during talks with Republicans, called [...]

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THE FIRST DEBATE: Mitt the Superb

Posted on October 4th, 2012

By Yuval Levin Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been running for president since about 2006, and have participated in a lot of debates in that time. I think this was Mitt Romney’s best debate in that entire time, and Barack Obama’s worst. Obama was the more surprising. He was weaker than usual in [...]

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Mitt Romney defends video: Not ‘elegantly stated’

Posted on September 18th, 2012

  By GINGER GIBSON and ANNA PALMER     POLITICO COSTA MESA, Calif. — Mitt Romney held a hastily arranged press conference here to engage in damage control hours after a video surfaced that showed him at a private May fundraiser describing 47 percent of the country as “dependent upon the government.” The GOP nominee for president [...]

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Former SNL Comedian Jon Lovitz unloads on Obama’s tax policies

Posted on April 24th, 2012

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