…any number of ‘deficits’ including ‘on-budget deficit’, ‘off-budget deficit’, and ‘primary deficit’. But here they simply reference THE ‘deficit’ without qualification. So which of the three above adjectivally modified ‘deficits’…

…and damage the national credit rating with their showdown over the debt ceiling. He just doesn’t mention that the impending debt default and Obama’s sequestration legislation–Obama presumably having become a…

reposted from The Bell An op-ed. Obama Has Lead Us to the Shore; It Is Up to Us to Decide What Government’s Role Will Be There and Elsewhere President Obama…

And the plain fact is that Obama has reiterated that the same spending and entitlement cuts he offered in 2011 are still on the table, even irking his own base…

…A truly radical debt reduction scheme Felix Salmon: The deficit commission’s plan Dean Baker: Statement on Deficit Commission Proposals Richard Green: One hand clapping for the Deficit Commission Co-chairs’ powerpoint…

…what Obama and Harry Reid are doing to the deficit.” (Something like that; I don’t have the exact quote handy.) Presumably, that voter is not a farmer and so doesn’t…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions Congress seems incapable of setting aside electioneering rhetoric and talking straight about taxes and deficits. The GOP claims…

…people would derive from Obama’s healthcare legislation. They didn’t know that they’d had their taxes cut under Obama. And millions believed the hype that federal deficit spending and the US…

(Dan here…lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts) “If Only Obama had Done the Things Obama Actually Did” J-chait Jon Chait remains as enthusiastic about Barack Obama as I am, so it…

…just stopped doing anything which could even be misinterpreted as a criticism of Obama.” But I don’t know if this is being deferential to the Democrats, or to Obama. After…