Buzzfeed has the story: Howard Dean has had it with President Obama’s budget proposal, saying the plan put forward by the White House might just drive him from the Democratic Party he once led as DNC chair. On Sunday night, Dean tweeted that the restoration of some defense sequestration cuts contained in Obama’s budget proposal [...]
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‘You First’: Obama to Republicans
Peter Baker, at the NY Times: Amid demands from Republicans that President Obama propose detailed new spending cuts to avert the year-end fiscal crisis, his answer boils down to this: you first. Mr. Obama, scarred by failed negotiations in his first term and emboldened by a clear if close election to a second, has emerged [...]
Where are the Lunchpail Democrats?
Lunchpail Democrats don’t exist. To bring the point home, Pres. Obama is now warning Democratic activists to brace themselves for the budget. But after capitulating to conservatism over Democratic economic values throughout his entire first term what comes next really shouldn’t require a warning. From the Hill: Top White House officials are warning liberal and [...]
Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Ryan’s Budget Scheme
While we were moving servers and doing the upgrade, which meant I couldn’t write until we got squared away… From The Hill, the Senate treated Paul Ryan’s Medicare voucher crap shoot like the plague it is: The 40-57 vote came one day after Republicans suffered an upset defeat in a special election in upstate New [...]
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