The president criticized Boehner's "Plan B" proposal today because it lacks an extension for unemployment insurance into 2013.
If the president fails to win on this issue, two million people will face tough choices. The mortgage or the car payment? Go to the doctor or hope for the best? Cash in the 401(k) or take the kids out of college?
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So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner and the House Republicans have not been [...]
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One of the black holes in our national discourse is the right’s revival of old-style nativism in its approach to the current immigration debate — replete with its scapegoating, demonization, and conspiracy theories, all in the pursuit of an eliminationist policy of deportation. In sucking all the oxygen out of the debate, the right has [...]
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