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Romney’s next big crisis

Mitt Romney may be consolidating his lead over Rick Santorum in the race to secure the GOP nomination picking up an endorsement from Marco Rubio on Wednesday night and from members of the Bush family. But the Republican presidential hopeful…

Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan Is A Start — But Only A Start

Move upMove down What the House GOP Budget Means for Seniors Howard Gleckman Contributor How Federal Medicaid Cuts Will Squeeze States Josh Barro Contributor US House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, Republican Representative fom Wisconsin, speaks to the press on…

Thomas Friedman’s energy fantasies

You can tell an aging con man has run out of new ideas when all he can do is mindlessly re-peddle the old ones. Thomas Friedman’s predictable sneer at the Republican primary process in The New York Times on Feb.…

The 2012 presidential race is slipping away from Republicans

AP Feb. 14, 2012: President Obama speaks about extending the payroll tax cut at the White House. The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than…

Democrats Drop Millionaire Surtax — For Now

Several senior Senate Democratic aides have confirmed Democrats have laid aside, for now, their attempt to pay for any extension of a package of benefits – including the payroll tax cut, jobless benefits, and a Medicare “doc fix” — with…

The Drug Shortage Crisis in America

Two Congressmen introduced bipartisan legislation to address prescription drug shortages last week.  The Drug Shortage Prevention Act would create a ‘Critical Drug List’ that would identify drugs that are susceptible to shortage, and require the FDA to develop a system…

Why they are high-fiving at the White House

AP Feb. 1, 2012: President Barack Obama holds up a proposed mortgage application form as he speaks at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va. The following two scenes speak volumes about where the 2012 presidential race currently…

Obama’s proposals evasive and irresponsible

Don’t worry, America. There’s nothing that ails this country that can’t be made right by a catalogue of piddling proposals that will be forgotten tomorrow–and oh yeah, more taxes on the rich. Such was the message of President Obama’s State…

Romney for President? What’s a Tea Party Voter to Do in 2012?

Having spent the last several days in the Granite State I am even more puzzled now than I was late last week when I began pondering this new reality: “The Tea Party is dead.” I don’t know what happened between…