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There is plenty of coverage of the allegations regarding Filner's sexual harassment.  Leslie Eastman at College Insurrection has a nice...

Republicans appear to be bowing to the inevitable and are moving towards a debt limit increase .  But at least it appears they will be requi...

Based on past experience and Obama's better political position, it is clear that the Republicans are ultimately going to pass some deb...

Well not a surprise, maybe, but certainly this could impact the election. According to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), pictured, the current de...

The President notified the Congress that he needed some more pocket change to keep the federal government running, to the tune of $1.2 tril...

All of the usual suspects have decided to blame the Tea Party for the recent S&P downgrade of U.S. government debt to AA+. This should...

Hallelujah, a debt deal passed and the economy is saved, because the President said that's what would happen if we passed a bipartisan d...

Debt ceiling fan, spinning in the wrong direction. It's warm at my house, (I was going to say hot, but we live in San Diego, CA not San ...

Before I get to an interesting take on the budget, I wanted to briefly comment on the state of play on the debt ceiling. Looking at what li...

Two traditional conservative columnists have some decent quotes about why Boehner's approach to the debt limit was the correct one. But...

Robert J. Samuelson, who I respect, but do not always agree with, reminded me of the fact that the political leaders refuse to talk openly a...

Hero of the Republic? John Boehner's plan to cut the deficit by $915 billion while raising the debt ceiling is going to underwhelm many...

Both the WSJ and the UT had headlines on the collapse of the debt ceiling talks. I'm glad that I have learned not to accept the headlin...

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh this morning and he made a great point about the debt ceiling negotiations. He said that any ten year deal...

No one can deny that growth of the federal debt is exploding under Obama's Presidency, and indeed started to climb after Democrats took ...

I have seen some commentary questioning the temerity of Republicans in holding out for spending cuts through the debt limit ceiling debate. ...

Yes. No. The big headline on the Drudgereport is that the President walked out of a meeting with Eric Cantor regarding debt limit negotiatio...

In order to stampede a deal on the debt ceiling, various Democrats have cited the constitution (at their convenience) regarding the debt of ...

Fellow SLOB W.C. Varones is predicting the Republicans will fold on the debt limit talks and backload any meaningful cuts, making them most...