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Obama, Boehner Begin Standoff Over Debt-Ceiling Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Apparently healed from the trauma caused by last summer's debt-ceiling showdown, House Republicans and the White House have begun an eig...

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Boehner: Obama 'Lost His Courage'

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says President Barack Obama can't run for re-election on his economic record so his campaign will ...

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CAPTION THIS: Obama & Boehner

Posted 03.21.2012

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SCROLL DOWN TO READ ALL THE CAPTIONS! We spend most of our days coming up with funny things to say about ridiculous photos, so it's only fair that ...

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Obama-Boehner Debt Deal Not On Table, Administration Officials Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Top officials in President Barack Obama's administration pushed back Tuesday on a report that they would still support a debt-reduction ...

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Obama Uses Tea Party Freshmen As 'Excuse' For Gridlock, House Speaker Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.06.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It's not that the House Tea Party caucus gets in the way of compromise -- it's that President Barack Obama uses the group as an excuse f...

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Boehner: 'I Need The President To Help Out'

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner says it's time for President Barack Obama to help end Congress' impasse over renewing the payroll tax cut and...

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"We Have More Important Things To Worry About Than Saving Face"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at Tuesday's White House briefing to send a message directly to House Speaker John Boe...

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2012 State Of The Union Address Announced

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 02.13.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will give his state of the union on Jan. 24, essentially launching his re-election year just as Republicans ...

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Obama Prods Deadlocked Congress

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.14.2012

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WASHINGTON — Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher tax reve...

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New Book Links Obama's Unresolved Rage At Parents To Inability To Fight GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama might actually learn how to fight back against Republicans if he faced the repressed anger he feels toward his pa...

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Obama Rips Page From Former President's Playbook

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON — Give `em hell, Barry? Heading into a tough re-election campaign, President Barack Obama has been railing against Congress to pass ...

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John Boehner Calls For Obama To Compromise On Jobs Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Speaker John Boehner's office is leading a new call for the president to compromise with House Republicans on pieces of his jobs bill, n...

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There Is No Political Middle Ground

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.30.2011

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In contemporary America there is no room for bipartisanship. We are solidly divided between Democrats and Republican who exist in their own, quite different, realities.

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'Job Creators' or 'Hostage Takers?'

Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.16.2011

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Excessive regulation is hardly the problem that created the housing crisis and banking sector meltdown. Quite the reverse. So, to say that regulations per se are the enemy of growth is just wrong.

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Obama Won't Include Social Security Reform In Recommendations To Super Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Jilted by Republican leadership during the deficit-reduction talks that accompanied the debt ceiling debate, the Obama administration is...

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Time Set For Obama's Jobs Speech

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.01.2011

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WASHINGTON — The tiff over the timing of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress offers little hope that Republicans and the White Hous...

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Is Obama Charlie Brown to Boehner's Lucy?

David Latt | Posted 10.04.2011

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Obama has to stop thinking he can make friends and influence Republicans and regroup, gathering around him his true supporters and create an alliance of progressives and independents.

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World Stocks Fall On Concerns That U.S. Will Not Reach Debt Ceiling Deal

Posted 09.28.2011

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LONDON (AP) -- Concerns that American lawmakers won't agree a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in the next few days continued to reverberate around...

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Boehner Ends Talks to Protect Tax Breaks for the Super-Rich -- Time for a Clean Vote

Ethan Rome | Posted 09.23.2011

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When the Republicans walked away from an imminent bipartisan deal, they threw the economy, the international markets, seniors and middle-class families under the bus.

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Obama: Debt Ceiling Talks Fell Apart, Boehner Walked Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Social Security and Medicare may have been saved by the Tea Party's refusal to accept President Barack Obama's "grand bargain." On Fr...

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Boehner: Negotiating With White House 'Like Dealing With Jell-O'

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 09.12.2011

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WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that no one wants to see the nation go into government default as the White House and law...

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DOMA Defense: Boehner Complaint Dropped By Watchdog Group CREW

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he would spend $500,000 to hire an outside law firm to defend the Defense of Marriage...

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Hawk Nation: A Guide to the Catastrophic Debt Ceiling Debate

James K. Galbraith | Posted 09.10.2011

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In Washington it appears that this assault on government has a large measure of elite and media support, if not on the crass details or vulgar personalities but because it could conceivably force the parties to do "what they should do anyway."

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WATCH: Obama Has Some Harsh Words For John Boehner

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 09.08.2011

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At Wednesday's Twitter Town Hall, President Obama took questions about the economy, education and other issues affecting his presidency. Most of the q...

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John Boehner Backs Obama's Call For Far-Reaching Debt Ceiling Plan

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.07.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used a bleak jobs report Friday to prod Congress toward a swift agreement on deficits and the national debt....

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