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CNN reports–how’s this for an answer to Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity?” President Barack Obama unveiled his long-awaited deficit reduction plan Wednesday, calling for a mix of spending reductions and tax hikes that the White House claims would cut federal deficits by $4 trillion over the next 12 years without gutting popular programs such as […]

Politico reports, it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: The dramatic 2012 spending plan unveiled Tuesday by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan amounts to a test of political will for the GOP’s most vulnerable lawmakers, some of them only a few months into their maiden terms… There’s plenty of reason to be […]

Writes the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim: When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn’t getting Faulkner… Many of Bush’s literary misdemeanors exemplify pedestrian sloth, but others are higher crimes against the craft of memoir. In one prime instance, Bush relates a poignant meeting between Afghan […]

Fifth District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, as many of you know, was a GOP candidate for Colorado Senate who was upset in his primary by “Tea Party” darling Tim Leonard (now in the process of narrowly losing the SD-16 election to Jeanne Nicholson). It’s easy to dismiss Hurlbert’s loss to Leonard as a phenomenon unique to […]