Budget

NYT Lead: 'Bipartisan Plan For Budget Deal Buoys President...House Republicans Face Intensifying Pressure to Avoid Isolation'

Jackie Calmes and Jennifer Steinhauer celebrate a "four-page outline" from a group of senators as a victory for Obama: "Financial markets rallied on the news. And with time running out before the ...

Networks Cast Big-Government Obama as Pushing 'Very Significant' and 'Painful' Budget Cuts

Over the past 10 days, as the debt ceiling negotiations have seemingly stalled, network reporters and newspaper correspondents have repeatedly cast President Obama as striving for "very ...

Since When? NYT Claims Obama 'Wants Deficit Reduction'; G.O.P. Has 'Problematic' Budget Philosophy

New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for outdated "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his politically motivated budget-cutting ...

Since When? Budget-Cutting Obama 'Wants Deficit Reduction'; G.O.P. Has 'Problematic' Budget Philosophy

Reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for an outdated and "problematic" "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, and wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his abrupt, politically ...

The Times' Main Economics Writer Pushes a Familiar Budget Solution: Tax Hikes

You'll never guess what the paper's chief economics writer David Leonhardt thinks would be a good solution to the debt ceiling/budget crisis. Or maybe you will: "In the end, the most likely tax ...

Lead Story Warns G.O.P. Spending Cut Demands May Trigger Financial Crisis, Damage Party

Jackie Calmes gives the Republican Senate leader a backhanded compliment: "While Mr. McConnell's plan would face an array of political and perhaps constitutional issues, it signaled that ...

Pelley Cites Tea Party as 'Problem' as ABC Relays 'Disgust,' Pelley Prompts Obama to Hail Reagan's Compromise 'Virtue'

Interviewing President Obama for Tuesday's CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley implied the Tea Party should be blamed for blocking a debt ceiling deal ("Isn't the problem that a large number of the ...

Obama 'Repositioning' as a 'Pragmatic Centrist'...But the NYT Has Claimed for Years That He Already Is

But the Times has spent three years telling us he already was a centrist! Jackie Calmes claims that President Obama "put on full display his effort to position himself as a pragmatic centrist ...

Meet Barack Obama, Newly Minted Budget Hero

Suddenly, Barack Obama is a budgetary hero and Republicans are the timid ones. The opening to Mark Landler's front-page story: "President Obama tried on Sunday to revive the chances for a sweeping ...

Brooks' Vicious, Anti-GOP 'Mother of All No-Brainers' Column Gets Mother of All Corrections

Other than that, brilliant, Mr. David Brooks: "An earlier version of this column misstated the amount of revenue increases needed in exchange for spending cuts. It is a few hundred billion, not ...
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