President Obama as seen through a teleprompter as he delivers a speech on U.S. fiscal and budgetary deficit policy at the George Washington University on April 13. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) –If you needed more evidence that squabbling over short-term discretionary spending is a joke, the CBO finds those vaunted $38 billion in cuts are only good [...]
They pretended to have been hopeful. “I thought it was an olive branch,” Paul Ryan said in the basement of the Capitol this afternoon, a few hours after he joined a cadre of House Republicans, at the behest of the President, at George Washington University for Obama’s policy speech. Instead — surprise! — the Republicans [...]
President Obama is scheduled to travel to Chicago Thursday, where he will appear at a fundraiser not far from his brand new reelection campaign headquarters. But Obama supporters do not have to wait until Thursday night to get a taste of what Obama wants the 2012 campaign to look like. The president’s speech Wednesday at [...]
Here’s what we learned today: Whatever action Congress takes on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction will be the last significant work Washington does before all pretenses are abandoned and campaigning for 2012 begins in earnest. In the next four to six weeks, Congress must pass a measure raising the debt ceiling as the Treasury Department [...]
GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is denouncing last week’s budget deal between the White House, Harry Reid and John Boehner
They are the single most powerful group in Washington right now and no one inside the Beltway knows much about them. Which is why CNN’s Brianna Keilar and I sat down yesterday evening in the Congressional Visitor’s Center with four House Republican freshmen for an in depth conversation about what they really want and what [...]
In his Wednesday speech on deficit reduction – and even in fact sheets distributed ahead of time – the President wasn’t big on specifics. On health care spending, a primary driver of long-term deficits, he was downright vague. In a briefing with reporters, two “senior administration officials” armed with talking points repeatedly stressed that “this [...]
President Obama didn’t offer a lot of specifics about how he intends to close the federal budget deficit in his speech at GW Wednesday, but he did make one thing clear: he intends to go head-to-head with Republicans over taxes. That makes political sense. If he’s going to go after $2 trillion in spending, as [...]
Since they can’t agree on much else, maybe Congress can come to a consensus on a resolution to keep Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe out of the pilot’s seat. The Smoking Gun has obtained FAA documents that show Inhofe, who’s a licensed private pilot, landed his Cessna plane on a closed runway last October in Port [...]
