His first impression is going to stick with him.
Congress
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Shorter White House on the Sequester: “It Will Destroy Everything”
The Obama administration attempts to build support for a sequester deal.
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Fix the Economy, Not the Deficit
As the sequester looms, what’s most clear is that both parties have given in to the idea that our chief problem is deficits.
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Happy Birthday, Dear Income Tax
Five lessons for progressives from our first century of income taxes.Â
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Extremist Republicans Don’t Want to be Attacked for Extremism
Perhaps they should try not-extremism?
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Americans Really Want the GOP to Knock It Off
Fatigue with GOP intransigence explains the low approval it gets from most Americans.
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Still More BS
The Bowles-Simpson Commission is the fiscal zombie that just won’t die.
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Why Republicans Should Want to Index the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage is a great idea—indexing it is an even better idea.
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Sequester Stupidity
Republicans think they can win this argument by saying the whole thing was Obama’s idea. They’re wrong.
