Short Takes on the News Because It is a Summer Weekend
The Republicans, having secured their agenda of massive spending cuts to decrease the deficit have now quit the talks.
“I would expect to hear from him,” Boehner told reporters, adding that his emissary to the talks, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), “has made it clear that these conversations could continue if they take the tax hikes out of the conversation.”
When Republicans say everything is on the table, they mean everything is on their side of the table.
The Washington Post Fact Checker checks the statement that Medicare patients ‘going to die’ under Obama’s health law and concludes the statement deserves three Pinnochio’s. So no
Republicans in the House are working on ways to change the “No Child Left Behind” law, you know, the one that was sponsored by Conservative George W. Bush to help with education. The Chairman of the House Education Committee, John Kline
went further in a conference call with reporters, criticizing the administration’s use of the $5 billion Race to the Top grant competition to get states to adopt its reform agenda.
Apparently the motivation of the Republicans is to achieve an electorate that is less smart than its members of Congress. An ambitious and probably unattainable goal.
The Jon Huntsman campaign can tout a poll in Florida that shows his support in that state is twice what his support is nationally. Unfortunately, his support nationally is 1%, and while his support in
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