Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has always worked according to her own clock and cared little for the timing of others. Through most of the summer, the smart money in Washington has been betting she would not run–and she’s checking in at just 9% in the latest national horse-race poll. But Palin has a way of proving the experts wrong. …
Politically speaking, it’s been a relatively quiet August recess for members of Congress: no screaming health care town halls like the ones in 2009, no emergency sessions to approve aid to the states, which occupied time last …
Who would’ve thought that the talk of London would be the Ames straw poll? Apparently, the only American more fascinating to Brits than Bill Bratton is Michele Bachmann. I have a post on our sister blog, Global Spin, about the U.K.’s growing fascination with the U.S. primaries.
With less than 11 hours left before the U.S. faced taking drastic action to avoid a default, the Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and trim federal deficits. The measure …
The tone of the past month of debt negotiations has hardly been Washington’s finest hour. In fact, the most popular words to describe the situation, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, were “ridiculous,” …
As the broad strokes of the debt ceiling deal began to leak out over the weekend, progressive groups filled reporters’ inboxes with outraged e-mails. “Seeing a Democratic President take taxing the rich off the table and instead push a deal that will lead to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefit cuts is like entering a …
If the definition of a compromise is something that most folks don’t like, then the $2.4 trillion debt-ceiling deal worked out over the weekend by President Barack Obama and GOP leaders in Congress is a resounding …
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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ‘s office announced late Sunday that he had signed off on a deal to raise the debt ceiling and enact $2.4 trillion in budget cuts, pending agreement from his …
With three days to go before the U.S. is forced to take drastic action to avoid default on its debt obligations, you’d think congressional negotiators would be frantically looking for a way to avoid disaster. Apparently not. …
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are not chatty men by nature. Notoriously monosyllabic, either man could probably compete for a world record in shortest average phone conversation. But
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House Speaker John Boehner failed to muster enough GOP votes to pass his plan to raise the debt limit on Thursday night, throwing into question the fate of Boehner’s proposal as well as that of his speakership. Republican leaders …
All eyes will be on the House on Thursday as Speaker John Boehner tries to push through Republicans’ latest proposal to raise the debt ceiling and trim federal deficits. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who’s keeping …
The House on Thursday is expected to vote on its latest iteration of a debt ceiling increase matched with spending cuts. With less than a week left before the government starts suspending services to avoid default, the Senate has …
