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Are House Republicans—now summoned back to Washington by Speaker John Boehner—about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff?
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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President Obama is cutting his Christmas holiday short, returning to Washington for a last attempt at avoiding the fiscal cliff. But he’s running headlong into the Republican strategy of fanaticism.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Every year about now I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” again to remind myself what Frank Capra understood about America—its essential decency and common sense.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Why is the president back to making premature and unnecessary concessions to Republicans?
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect them from deranged people wielding semiautomatic guns, but we’re also not protecting them from poverty.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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It was the centerpiece of the president’s re-election campaign. Every time Republicans complained about trillion-dollar deficits, he and other Democrats would talk jobs. That’s what Americans care about—jobs with good wages. So why, exactly, is Washington back to obsessing about budget deficits?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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