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Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's advisors are confident that liberals dismayed by his agreement to extend tax breaks for the wealthy will forgive him by the time the...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — More than 40,000 estates worth $1 million to $10 million would be expected to escape inheritance taxes next year under the deal str...
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are congratulating themselves for their bipartisan tax-cut compromise, hoping to b...
The Washington Post | Peter Wallsten | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of President Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans, the White House is moving quickly to mend its strained relationship with the Democrati...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
A flurry of polls conducted last month found more Americans urging their political leadership to compromise to get things done. So are leaders who vot...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
People who live outside the Beltway may not be aware of the fact that in Washington, DC, we have a local competition to see who can write the most sha...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Mike Huckabee recently criticized President Obama for what the former Arkansas Governor and potential GOP presidential candidate characterized as "ama...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
When President Barack Obama first fixed on what he wanted to see happen to the Bush tax cuts, Senator Chuck Schumer imagined a compromise.
David Latt | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democratic members of Congress have to do something out of character. They have to stand up to their own president. They have to protect the country from the insidious, Machiavellian duplicity of the Republican leadership.
Chuck Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
By extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and instituting a significantly weakened estate tax, more wealth will flow into the hands of the richest one percent -- and within that to richest one-tenth of one percent.
Tavis Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011
Earlier today, I spoke with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about President Obama's tax cut compromise.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
So, President Barack Obama wants to cut some taxes. A lot of taxes! And the tax-cut compromise he's floated into the legislative morass, for all its...
Michael Wenger | Posted 05.25.2011
It is difficult for me to see how progressives can justify a no vote on the deal if they really care about their middle and working-class constituents.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told thousands of Americans that if Republicans "run over us now, there is no stopping these guys," and called on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
You know, with all the talk about who is mad at President Barack Obama and who stands to win or lose what election over this tax-cut deal, not as much attention has been paid to the practical beneficiaries of the deal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
With Reporting From Ryan Grim WASHINGTON -- Taking the lectern in the James Brady briefing room for an impromptu news conference on Tuesday afternoon...
William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011
Americans are uncomfortable calling attention to pay discrepancies and exploitation because it smacks of class warfare. Thus they put up and shut up.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN and DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Brushing past Democratic opposition, President Barack Obama announced agreement with Republicans Monday night on a plan to extend e...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: President Barack Obama announced "a framework for a bipartisan agreement" Monday night over the impending expiration of the Bush tax cuts. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- An informal deal to hold four "test votes" with Republicans was canceled late Thursday night, according to a spokesman for Senate Majori...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 10.11.2011