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Late last week, TIME spoke to John Ellis, who has blogged, worked in the election units of NBC and Fox News, written columns for the Boston Globe, and now runs a new website at Business Insider called Politix. Ellis is one of the hardest-headed political observers we know and he was kind enough to take on a few questions:
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President Obama is introduced by Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Chicago on April 14. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
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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 …
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 lines they just …
President Obama closes his eyes as first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the White House on April 12. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
–President Obama will give his speech on long-term deficits at 1:35 pm today. In addition to revisiting some elements of Simpson-Bowles, Marc Ambinder reports Obama’s vision will be one of contrast with …
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is arrested in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday, April 11. (Bill Clark/Roll Call)
–President Obama will use the Simpson-Bowles commission report as a framework for the deficit reduction plan he’s set to unveil Wednesday afternoon. Starting from the center will only exacerbate liberal …
President Obama sprints up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to visit with tourists on April 9, a day after Congress came to agreement on funding the federal government. (REUTERS/Mike Theiler)
–A 2011 budget deal may be done, or at least a compromise number reached and some riders ruled out, but lawmakers are still working out …
Not a minute’s walk from where the Democratic caucus was taking their stand this afternoon — the room in which Sen. Harry Reid struggled to answer a question about why they were using their organizational skills to hold a press conference instead of to get back in a room with the Republican leadership — is Statuary Hall, one of those …
