Obama Debt Ceiling

Obama Vs. Obama, Part 2: Of 'Grand Bargains' and Lost Hope

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.28.2012

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Arianna Huffington

In negotiating with John Boehner, why did the Obama administration prioritize debt reduction? Millions did what Obama asked in 2008 and voted their hopes, but how many were hoping for the Grand Bargain we really got?

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Obama's Communitarianism

Gary Dorrien | Posted 05.04.2012

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Gary Dorrien

Since the debt ceiling debacle of July 2011, Obama has gotten clearer that he cannot have a successful presidency if he does not push harder for equality and the common good.

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How Obama Survived A Brush With Political Disaster

The New Republic | Noam Scheiber | Posted 02.13.2012

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Shortly after four o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 13, 2011, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner walked down the hallway near his office...

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Michael McAuliff

Senate Clears Way For Debt Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to let the president raise the nation's debt limit by about $1.2 trillion, voting down a measure that would ha...

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Increasing the Debt Ceiling Won't Fix the Economy

Sam Turer | Posted 03.07.2012

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Sam Turer

We need to create a bipartisan legislation that will help the American people and government find some way out of its 300-year battle with debt.

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Obama Delays Vital Request

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 02.29.2012

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HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is delaying his request for another $1.2 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit at the request of congre...

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Jason Linkins

Washington Post Laments A Year In Which No One Did Enough About The Deficit

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.29.2011

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Yesterday, the Washington Post's Lori Montgomery, as is her wont, summed up the past year with a lengthy lamentation about how Congress didn't do enou...

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Sam Stein

Barney Frank: Majority Of Democrats Will Support Amending Defense Cut Trigger

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Retiring Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) spilled a few beans on Sunday morning when he said a majority of Democrats would sign off on...

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Sam Stein

Jay Carney On Triggered Cuts To Defense Spending: 'There Is No Wiggle Room'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney categorically dismissed on Monday the idea that the president would change the construction of th...

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Sam Stein

GOP Senator: Obama Veto Threat Has Escape Clause

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2011

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One of the Republican members of the congressional super committee attempted on Sunday to create some wiggle room with regard to President Obama's opp...

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Sam Stein

Obama Warns Super Committee Co-Chairs Not To Change Triggers In Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With the deadline fast approaching for the congressional super committee to make its deficit reduction recommendations, President Barack...

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Bill Clinton: 'I Was Wrong'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.09.2012

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Former President Bill Clinton backed off a claim he made in his new book, Back To Work, to an audience at the New York Historical Society Tuesday. ...

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"Free Market" Politicians Call for Austerity and Cuts While Financial Markets Call for Keynesian Stimulus and Jobs

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.28.2011

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Miles Mogulescu

As markets warn of the risk of double-dip recession or even depression, politicians in Washington and Berlin -- who claim to believe in "free markets" -- fiddle while Rome may be about to burn.

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Rod Kurtz

What Would You Do About The Debt?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 11.22.2011

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What should be done about America's debt? It's the $14 trillion question that continues to fuel debate in the halls of Congress and across dinner tabl...

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Michael McAuliff

Poll: White House, Congress Pursue Least Popular Deficit Measures

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congress and the president are set to reduce the federal deficit in the least popular ways possible, according to data from a new Bloomb...

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Mr. Obama, Get Your Dick (Cheney) On

Mark Morford | Posted 11.14.2011

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Mark Morford

Let me just say it outright: I still love Obama.

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The Real Obama Betrayal

Jesse Lava | Posted 10.30.2011

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Jesse Lava

If we'd known that Obama the Conciliator would make it to the White House and Obama the Transformer would be left in Chicago's Grant Park on election night, many of us would have gambled on someone else.

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Obama Faces Liberal Backlash

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 10.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — Liberals argue that he caved on the debt ceiling. Unions are upset over his handling of unemployment and labor issues. Hispanics br...

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Obama's No Good, Very Bad Month

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON — It has been a lousy month for President Barack Obama. And August is not yet 2 weeks old. Running for re-election, he's getting be...

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And the Bands Played On

Bernard Rowan | Posted 10.10.2011

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Bernard Rowan

Whilst the Democrats and Republicans rail away at each other, and whilst the Mayor of London, Prime Minister, and all manner of others denounce thuggery and yobs, I am struck by troubling parallels that face America and Britain.

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Mandy Jenkins

Tell Us About Fundraising Calls From Obama, Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 10.09.2011

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WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, he has to sell a controversial deal he endorsed to end the impasse over the debt c...

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What's Happening to America?

Ethan Casey | Posted 10.09.2011

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Ethan Casey

A decade ago, I read a book that made a lasting impression on me. It was a memoir called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, who had recently passed ...

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Elise Foley

S&P Officials Blame Downgrade On 'Degree Of Uncertainty' In Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Ratings agency Standard and Poor's defended its decision to downgrade the United States credit rating, arguing on Sunday that the downgr...

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Animosity

Peter Clothier | Posted 10.05.2011

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Peter Clothier

This would be a good time for us all to take a thoughtful look at ourselves. If we think of Obama as the mirror, what is it that we see about ourselves when we look at him? The projection of blame is too easy an answer for our troubles.

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Obama: The President Who Wouldn't Make the Louisiana Purchase

Jeff Madrick | Posted 10.05.2011

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Jeff Madrick

Stimulus -- not spending cuts -- could have created jobs. The wonderful thing about being president is the bully pulpit. But Obama doesn't use it to persuade Americans about much of anything.

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