…deficit. — Obama wants to tackle poverty and inequality. So why is his economic team so focused on the deficit?, Jim Tankersley, Washington Post, Jan. 25 One of my great…

…he argues with Bruce Webb that the small cash deficit this year will keep on growing, but he doesn’t really say so. The deficit might keep growing or it might…

…proposed reforms and the proposed 10 year deficit minus the business as usual 10 year deficit. Weisman (and the anonymous Post staffer) could have well have written that Obama proposes…

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney escalated his attacks on President Barack Obama’s welfare waivers Monday, suggesting that welfare recipients make up President Barack Obama’s political “base.” In an interview…

by Mike Kimel A few questions about Obama and Next Year’s Presidential Election Assume that Michelle Bachmann wins the Republican nomination next year and Obama wins re-election. Given Obama’s governing…

…bailing out the banks. If the bank bailouts are backed out of the Obama budget the recession deficits in the first years under Obama and Reagan are about the same….

…might do the trick. Obama might sign it. I will assume that the rules are that Boehner must have a case that Obama caved and Obama must have a case…

…crook (because didn’t Comey almost directly say so?), or had some other personal shortcoming. By contrast, the Romney-Clinton voters were closer to the Obama-Trump voters than to the Obama-Clinton voters…

…politics over a cup of coffee. As a former commissioner at the Federal Election Commission, I have seen the effects these laws have on citizen participation and civic-mindedness. I have…

…is deemed to be state aid, the Commission would have to determine two things: Was it notified to the Commission, as required by the state aid rules? (No, or we…