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Obama misses deadline for report to Congress on planned defense cuts
Oh well. He’s been busy with more important stuff. He’ll get to it when he gets to it, even though (a) he signed a bill just last month setting today as the deadline, and (b) the whole idea of a...
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Reid: Senate to have a “short and compact” schedule this fall
Deadlock. They’re baaaaaaaack. Well, for a little while, anyways. Congress reconvened in D.C. on Monday after a month away, but it looks like we’re only in for a short, pre-election agenda before our...
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Over the cliff: Durable goods orders drop 13.2% in August; Update: Q2 GDP...
Largest decrease since January 2009. A key measure of the economy, especially in manufacturing, just had the bottom fall out. Orders for durable goods dropped 13.2% in August, the worst decrease in...
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Panetta on sequestration: I’ll take “whatever the hell deal” they can make
Stability. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has already made it clear that the upcoming sequestration cuts currently set to take place in January, which would shave nearly $500 billion from an...
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Obama administration tries to block sequester layoff notices
Friday night document dump report. The latest durable-goods orders report must have the Obama administration — and the Obama campaign — more worried than they publicly let on. According to the...
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Lockheed: Sure, we’ll keep our workers in the dark about layoffs
Transparency. To quote Glenn Reynolds, they told me if I voted for John McCain that the corporations would conspire with the government to keep the working class in the dark — and they were right!...
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Did Obama blow it on sequestration?
"He's not a dictator yet." By even Fox News’ account, Barack Obama’s answer on sequestration last night was one of his best moments. Summoning a commanding presence, Obama emphatically pledged to the...
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McCain hammers Obama’s “lack of maturity”
"Showing a lack of maturity as well as a lack of judgment." Earlier today, I participated in a conference call with Senator John McCain, arranged by Mitt Romney’s campaign as an answer session after...
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“The sequestration will not happen,” except if it does
Lame. Seeking to reassure the defense community (for instance, the many Northern Virginia defense bureaucrats and contractors who could decide the direction of the swingy commonwealth’s 13 electoral...
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Report: Some Dems would rather go over fiscal cliff than compromise on...
Cliffhangers. Everyone was chummy and hopeful about a deal at the White House today, but if you’re surprised to hear that some Democrats are intent on driving a very hard bargain, you must have missed...
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Three cliffs, no waiting?
Strategies. Just how many cliffs do we face at the end of the year, anyway? We’ve been debating about policy and strategy over the fiscal cliff, but Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff defines the standoff as...
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Video: Progress on the fiscal cliff?
"There could be a deal by the middle of this week." Has the “logjam been broken” on the fiscal cliff? Yes, says Major Garrett, now at CBS News, although a deal hasn’t been finalized. His sources at...
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Chart of the Day: Austerity? What austerity?
Plus, we spent $7 trillion on stimulus and didn't even get a lousy T-shirt. What did the Q4 GDP number and the January jobs report show us? To listen to the White House, the New York Times, and Obama...
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Pelosi: It’s really a false argument to say we have a spending problem
That literally makes no sense. Classic. Well, I think that sequestration is a bad idea all around. … The fact is, we’ve had plenty of spending cuts. … What we need is growth. We need growth with...
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Ryan: Yeah, the sequester’s probably going to happen
"We have acted in the House. The president has not. The Senate has not[.]" Earlier this morning, I was asked by Jim Vicevich on his radio show whether I thought the sequester would go through. I said...
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ABC: Devastating sequester cuts? Give me a break!
The devastating drop-off. If we lived in a perfect world, it would be Job No. 1 of every single news report on the sequester to give context to the cuts, so Americans know just how huge minuscule they...
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WaPo/Pew sequestration poll question oddly missing an option
Actually, the option. Let’s see if you can figure out what Pew and the Washington Post left out of this poll question about blame for the sequester. I won’t even give you a hint, even if Rovin had to...
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Krauthammer: It’s going to be really embarrassing for the Left if we come out...
Panic! at the White House. To hear President Obama and the Cabinet officials he has been steadily trotting out like show ponies tell it, the sequester cuts cannot, must not happen, because we’ll...
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Poll: Nobody knows anything about sequestration
On surviving a devastating loss. Americans aren’t really sure what’s going on, but they’re pretty sure it’s a big deal. Not only are most people paying very little attention to the sequester, they also...
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Inhofe, Toomey: Hey, why don’t we give Obama some flexibility on sequestration?
He'd like that, right? Among the complaints about sequestration coming from the White House in recent weeks has been that the sequestration is much too indiscriminate, and that its rules pretty much...
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