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Tax-Loving, Obama-Defending NYT Writer Leonhardt Rises to Washington Bureau Chief

David Leonhardt, the New York Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three ...

CNN Ignores Poll Results Showing Strong Support for 'Cut, Cap, and Balance'

Reporting results from its newly-released poll Thursday, CNN emphasized answers showing the majority of respondents favoring compromise on the debt ceiling debate, as well as raising the debt ...

Snarky Ali Velshi Batters Grover Norquist Over Debt Ceiling Pledge

On his Saturday show Your Money, CNN host Ali Velshi tried to pin the blame for the debt ceiling standoff on one man ' the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. "Are you the ...

MSNBC's 'News' Anchors Launch Left-Wing Broadsides After Obama Presser

If you thought MSNBC saved its left-wing agitating for prime time, you'd be wrong. Shortly after President Obama's press conference on Friday, 11am ET anchor Thomas Roberts framed a question about ...

Laura Ingraham Slaps Down Matt Lauer's Demand for 'Shared Sacrifice' on Taxes

In an interview with radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer fretted over the lack of a deal on raising the debt ceiling and called on Republicans to abandon their ...

NBC's Gregory Grills Pawlenty on GOP 'Purity Test' on Taxes

In an interview with Tim Pawlenty on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory cited New York Times columnist David Brooks slamming Republican opposition to tax increases in debt ceiling ...

NBC's Chuck Todd: Anti-Tax Hike Tea Party Republicans Are the 'Problem' Blocking Deal to Help 'Hurting' Americans

"The problem is this issue with the House Republicans," NBC's Chuck Todd declared Wednesday night in naming the culprit blocking help to Americans whom Brian Williams asserted "are hurting every ...

CBS's Schieffer Trumpets Coburn's 'Candor' on Willingness to Hike Taxes, Rues Others Lack Such 'Courage'

Previewing Tuesday's Early Show town hall meeting with Republicans on the economy, CBS's Bob Schieffer, who pushes his Face the Nation guests to agree taxes must be raised, hailed a Republican, ...

Ann Coulter Educates The View's Joy Behar on Reagan Tax Cuts

Author Ann Coulter sparred with Joy Behar on Reaganomics on Wednesday's episode of The View on ABC. "How are you going to solve it if you don't have any revenue coming in?" asked Joy Behar of the ...

CBS's Smith Wonders If Tea Party 'Losing' Its Appeal, More Sunday Pleas to Raise Taxes

"Do you think the Tea Party is losing some of its appeal?" So Harry Smith cued up a hardly independent guest on Sunday's Face the Nation: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the DNC. Meanwhile, ...
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