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Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers — The logic behind president Obama's budget has one extremely sensible feature: it distinguishes between spending that simply adds to consumption, and spending that really does mean investment. His analogy over the weekend …
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The Great Abdication — Andrew Leonard is right: the Obama budget isn't going to happen, so in a sense it's irrelevant. But it still has symbolic meaning. What is Obama saying here? — The important thing, I think, is that he has effectively given up on the idea that the government …
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Grasping Reality …, Ezra Klein, AmSpecBlog and TalkLeft

Why Obama's Budget Is OK — How should liberals think about the Obama administration's new budget? Ultimately I'm pretty happy with it, but let me explain how I get there: — The first-order description has to be that Obama's budget is bad. The domestic discretionary budget is not too big.
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Paul Krugman, Yglesias, The Plum Line, Washington Post and The Reality-Based Community


Obama to offer $3.7 trillion budget blueprint; deficit to hit $1.6 trillion this year — President Obama will roll out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education, transportation and research …

Obama budget reveals Obama's core — Here's what President Barack Obama's new budget tells me: He hasn't shifted to the center, he's shifted into 2012 campaign mode, one that let's him be who is really is. — The budget is a political document that bets voters really don't care much about deficits.

Obama's budget: A play for the center?
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THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE.... Almost immediately after President Obama's budget proposal was released, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a statement condemning it. As the right-wing senator put it, the White House's budget “would push us over the edge into generational debt.”
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Debt now equals total U.S. economy — President Obama projects that the gross federal debt will top $15 trillion this year, officially equalling the size of the entire U.S. economy, and will jump to nearly $21 trillion in five years' time. — Amid the other staggering numbers in the budget …
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Conservatives4Palin, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Don Surber

THE WRONG PRIORITY AT THE WRONG TIME.... The White House issued …
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Obama Budget Proposal: Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class …
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Obama's FY2012 Budget: Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes
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U.S. Deficit Expected to Spike
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The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army — American politics is one long argument about what government should or shouldn't be doing, and how it should or shouldn't be doing it. It's rare that we step back, take in the larger picture and ask what it is doing.
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Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll — Survey Shows Most Likely Voters Still Undecided — DURHAM, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early frontrunner in the New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new poll. — The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Romney …
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Public Policy Polling, Hot Air, Weigel and The Page
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Romney has big lead in New Hampshire
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No, He Wouldn't—Would He? — House Speaker's State May Get $450 Million Extra — Leaders of the new majority in the House of Representatives promised to cut spending and eliminate earmarks. But House budget legislation filed Friday night contains a provision that looks very much like an earmark …
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Carol Moseley Braun Under Fire for Comments About Emanuel, Hitler Character in ‘The Producers’ — Chicago - Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun had some explaining to do this weekend after another apparent gaffe regarding one of her opponents. — During a rally with Princeton …
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Rahm Emanuel hits opponent on Tea Party endorsement as Chicago mayor race heats up
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Disrespectful Libertarians Hijack CPAC Poll — And Its Mission — The top three winners of this weekend's CPAC straw poll will not win the 2012 presidential nomination. And if any of the top three do break through to prove that prediction wrong, none of them will go on to win the White House in 2012.
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Protests Gather Steam in Tehran — Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran Monday, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters who recently toppled their own regimes.
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What Does Bias Look Like? — So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry. And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things.


Ryan: W.H. budget is ‘bankruptcy’ — House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dismissed President Obama's budget as failing to meet the “critical test of leadership.” But he said that Republican members of his panel “want to get serious” and that he expects to bring a …
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House set to pass Patriot Act extension on second try
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New Civil Rights Commission Suspends Printing Of New Black Panther Report — Newly appointed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights closed their investigation of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and suspended publication of hard copies of the report at a meeting last week.


Wanted: A Grand Strategy for America — NEWSWEEK's new columnist on Obama's Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes. — Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images — President Barack Obama in front of the Sphinx during a tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza following his landmark speech to the Muslim World on June 4, 2009.
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Forde convicted in killing of Arivaca man, daughter — A Pima County jury convicted Shawna Forde today of two counts of first-degree murder in the May 30, 2009 deaths of Arivaca residents Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. — The jury also convicted Forde of attempted …
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Wait, Who's Cutting Pell Grants? And Why? — Reports that President Obama's budget request would cut Pell Grant funding first began to circulate over the weekend. — If you happened to see those stories, you may have reacted the way I did: What? Wasn't the whole point of the Obama budget to spend more money on education?


Word and Lyric, Giffords Labors to Speak Again — PHOENIX — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an eloquent speaker before she was shot in the head last month, is relearning the skill — progressing from mouthing words and lip syncing songs to talking briefly by telephone to her brother-in-law in space.

Popular Arizona sheriff considering a U.S. Senate run — Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012. — Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti-immigration stances …
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Wall Street's Dead End — THE stock market has been big news in recent days. Last week's report that Deutsche Börse, a giant German exchange, intends to buy the New York Stock Exchange, creating a company worth some $24 billion, arrived shortly after the Dow broke the 12,000-point barrier …
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