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  • Senate Dems Go Old Testament: An eye for an eye

    Published October 14, 2013

    Senate Democrats are looking for payback from Republicans as the clock runs down on debt talks. 

  • Senate shutdown scramble

    Published October 11, 2013

    Minority leader Mitch McConnell pitches Senate strategy in fiscal debate, after White House pushes back on House plan. 

  • Shutdown extension ahead?

    Published October 10, 2013

    President Obama meets with House Republicans, as GOP strategy steps back from debt limit fight and focuses on battle over government funding.

  • Liberals tell Obama to bring the pain

    Published October 09, 2013

    President Obama's liberal base is urging him to stand firm as pressure mounts for him to abandon his "no negotiations" stance on fiscal talks. 

  • No Pleasing GOP Critics

    Published October 08, 2013


    Remember how it was Republicans’ obsessive focus on social issues that was going to doom the party? Between 2008 and well into the aftermath of the party’s 2012 defeat, the culprit behind the party’s problems was said again and again to be social issues.

  • New poll shows risks in Obama’s debt play

    Published October 08, 2013

    As Obama and Democrats push a new debt plan, a Fox News Poll shows voters are against raising the debt limit without spending cuts.

  • Obama digs in, raising worries

    Published October 07, 2013

    Fear of default worsens as President Obama refuses to budge and the partial shutdown drags on.

  • Grounded!

    Published October 04, 2013

    President Obama is avoiding the publicity hit for an expensive overseas trip. 

  • Obama’s Rhetorical Trap

    Published October 03, 2013

    Feelings of moral superiority are expensive luxuries in politics. It feels so good to denounce and despise, right up until the moment you have to start making concessions. And that’s where Democrats find themselves after weeks of calling Republicans “hostage takers” and “the most dangerous demagogic force in American politics since Joe McCarthy.”
     

  • Obama forced to the table over shutdown

    Published October 03, 2013

    Republicans drive Democrats to negotiate by talking about funding parts of the government rather than shutting it down.