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Now, how about that spending?
I take exception to your last sentence in The Sun's editorial on the fiscal cliff resolution that it "sets the stage for more Republican gamesmanship..." ("Trouble ahead," Jan. 2). President Barack Obama has been hammering on taxing the successful...Tags: Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff
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Crisis they created catches up with Republicans
The most ironic part of the partisan fight over the "fiscal cliff" is that, if Republicans want Barack Obama to act according to Republican principles, they should encourage the president to do nothing and simply let the country — and the...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party Movement
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Don't expect much — good or bad — from Obama's second term
A week after he won re-election, President Barack Obama said he was more than familiar with what the "literature" — the very use of the term cheered academics like me — says about re-elected presidents who over-reach during their second terms....
Tags: Monica Lewinsky, Parties and Movements, White House, John Boehner, International Military Interventions
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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Department of Defense, Parties and Movements, Jules Witcover, Jack Lew
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Don't count Biden out in 2016
As the second Obama term gets underway, much is being said and written about the president finally emerging as a tougher, stronger Democrat in the liberal mold of past party greats. His second inaugural address pressed Republicans in Congress to accept...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Dick Cheney, John Adams, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...
Tags: Military Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Leon Panetta, John McCain
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Operation Hubris
One of the great things about American politics is its capacity for punishing hubris. For the ancient Greeks, hubris didn't merely describe god-like arrogance. It was a crime, usually defined as taking too much pleasure in the humiliation of your foes....
Tags: Culture, Immigration, Parties and Movements, Gun Control, Ronald Reagan
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The GOP sequester
One of the more amusing subplots of Washington's latest (if not most pitiful) fiscal standoff is the greater investment in finger-pointing and history rewriting than in actually negotiating a compromise. House Speaker John A. Boehner is particularly...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Military Equipment, Defense, White House, Parties and Movements
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Where's the Democrats' due diligence?
While the Republicans were certainly guilty of deficit spending, they at least fulfilled their due diligence during President George W. Bush's administration ("Get it done," Feb. 13). They submitted a budget in accordance with the law and the most basic...
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin L. Cardin, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Congress
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Congress stacked the deck against the Post Office
Recent news coverage of the U.S. Postal Service's proposal to end Saturday mail deliveries has focused mainly on the public's reaction to the change ("For mail carriers, Saturday routes roll on — for now," Feb. 10). What has scarcely been...
Tags: Richard Nixon, U.S. Postal Service, Employees, U.S. Congress
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Ex-Md. agency head named acting SSA commissioner
Carolyn Colvin, the former secretary of the state Department of Human Resources, became acting commissioner of the Woodlawn-based Social Security Administration on Thursday. President Barack Obama has not yet nominated a successor for Michael J. Astrue,...
Tags: Michael J. Astrue , Barack Obama
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The real problem with David Petraeus
There are a lot worse things going on in our country right now than Gen. David Petraeus cheating on his wife, and one of them is our country's invidious use of drone warfare. The worst part about it is that we have been brainwashed to believe that it is...Tags: Military Equipment, Pakistan, Barack Obama, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dennis J. Kucinich
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