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8:19 AM, Jan 8, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 3:43 PM, Jan 3, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMANHaving avoided the "fiscal cliff," we will now be in jeopardy of breaking our necks when we collide with the "debt ceiling." The responsible thing to do, we are already being told by the New York Times is ... to raise the ceiling:
Read more... 9:34 AM, Jan 3, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERBill Kristol, with Kirsten Powers and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 1:34 PM, Jan 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERMetro stops in Washington, D.C. will now feature advertisements that warn of overspending. "Talk Is Cheap," the tagline on a series of ads reads. "Overspending Is Not."
Read more... Round-trip cost of president's return trip: $3.6 million.7:04 AM, Jan 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERAfter Congress agreed temporarily to avert the "fiscal cliff" last night, President Barack Obama hailed the deal in brief remarks delivered from the White House, and then headed to Air Force One to take a midnight flight to Hawaii. Obama had left his family days earlier to return to Washington to deal with the "fiscal cliff."
Read more... 12:37 PM, Dec 31, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERA Democratic member of Congress is moving to block President Barack Obama's congressional pay increase. The move, led by John Barrow of Georgia, is to prevent the pay increase that Obama issued through an executive order from going into effect.
Read more... 2:25 PM, Dec 24, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSpending will increase 55 percent over the next decade, if President Barack Obama's budget plan goes into effect. The finding comes from the Republican-side of the Senate Budget Committee, which notes that Obama's "Proposal Would Spend $880 Billion Over Already Projected Increases."
Read more... 8:10 AM, Dec 20, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONIt has become increasingly clear that the Obama-era Democrats view every major societal event as a new invitation to spend money, centralize power, or both. The horrendous shootings in Connecticut have the Democrats lobbying not only for new legislation, but new federal legislation — and hence more federal power — rather than entrusting the passage of any such legislation to the states. Meanwhile, the damage from Hurricane Sandy has the Democrats looking to do the only thing that they might enjoy even more than enacting cumbersome legislation — spending borrowed money.<
Read more... 4:15 PM, Dec 17, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONSince Washington and the mainstream press corps are pretending that our deficit woes are the result of a roughly equal blend of excessive federal spending and insufficient federal taxation, let’s review the evidence. According to official government figures published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in fiscal year 2008, the federal government took in $2.524 trillion and spent $2.983 trillion. So the
Read more... 3:37 PM, Dec 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSenator Mark Begich, a Democrat from Alaska, is "pleased" to include more than $200 million in pork spending in the Sandy legislation, a bill meant to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The senator's office explains the request in a press release:
Read more... 12:00 AM, Dec 15, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERThe fiscal cliff is a diversion, designed by politicians to conceal their inability to come to grips with the fact that they continue to spend too much, and refuse to reform a tax structure that reduces the competitiveness of American companies in world markets. No matter what deal is cut, whether before or after the new year, it will at best nibble at the edges of the trillion-dollar annual deficits that are being piled up.
Read more... 8:16 AM, Dec 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe federal government is now spending $110 billion on "all food assistance" per year, according to new analysis by the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee. The federal dollars spent on these programs has risen by nearly $70 billion in just ten years.
Here's a chart from the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee, showing how spending has increased over the last dozen years:

Read more... 8:41 AM, Dec 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER"President Obama's 'Plan' Adds $8.6 Trillion to the Debt," the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee contends. Here's a chart put together by the Republicans on the committee to explain how Obama's plan adds to the debt:
Read more... 10:04 AM, Dec 12, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERMinority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, blasted President Barack Obama for not leaving anything on the "fiscal cliff" negotiating table this morning in remarks on the Senate floor.
Read more... 9:22 AM, Dec 12, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSenator Jeff Sessions continues to argue against the secrecy of the ongoing "fiscal cliff" negotiations with an op-ed this morning in today's Wall Street Journal. Sessions argues that the secrecy is inherently anti-Democratic, and similar to the "Russian Duma, where officials meet behind closed doors, put out the word, and the overwhelming votes materialize."
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