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Ready for the Fight: Rolling Stone Interview with Barack Obama | Politics News | Rolling Stone
“The president, in the Oval Office, discusses his job, the opposition and the coming campaign.”
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Ignoring Karl Rove’s Caution, Republicans Secret Service, GSA Scandals To Attack Obama | TPMDC
“Karl Rove warned Republicans that attempts to link President Obama to the ongoing Secret Service and GSA scandals would be perceived as political overreach. But so far, they haven’t been able to help themselves.”
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Student loans: A rerun of the payroll tax cut fight? – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
“Meanwhile, Dems continue to believe the politics of this fight are on their side, and continue to argue that Republicans are taking refuge behind the dispute over the pay-for to mask their ideological hostility to government help for student debt. And Dems are getting a bit of help in that regard, too. As I noted this morning, GOP Rep. Todd Akin recently opined that programs such as federally funded student loans have left America with ‘the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism.’ In his speech today, Obama lampooned this quote and held it up as an emblem of GOP extremism, noting: ‘Just when you think you heard it all in Washington, somebody comes up with a new way to go off the deep end.’”
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Eric Cantor: Tax The Poor! | The New Republic
“As is often the case, Republican leaders in the public eye have been slow to state the new conservative doctrine too forthrightly. Now, it seems, they’re starting to loosen up. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last week became, I think, the highest-ranking Republican poobah to say, pretty much outright, that we need to soak the poor. More remarkable still, he said we need to do it in order to avoid raising taxes on the rich! “
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The Maddow Blog – GOP economist, Romney aide ‘seems to have jumped the shark’
“The wonk gap remains a constant source of frustration. The scope of the nation’s challenges are enormous, but the debate remains stunted — any policy discussion has to progress from a shared foundation of reality, and at this point, the right isn’t even prepared to accept the basics. Their experts seem strikingly confused. The issue is not just someone on the left thinking those on the right have the wrong answers. Rather, the issue is the lack of intellectual seriousness on the right, making it impossible to get beyond the questions themselves.”
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“The second, and more important lesson, is that the economy could have been in much better shape had Republicans cooperated. That doesn’t mean acquiescence, but it does mean an attempt to find mutually beneficial solutions to the problems of slow growth and high unemployment.”
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Political Animal – Toryism Isn’t Working
“This should be of great interest to Americans who could care less about British politics, because ‘expansionary fiscal contraction’ is precisely the Big Macroeconomic Theory of the Republican Party, as expressed constantly from Capitol Hill to the presidential campaign trail. It’s the how-to-fight-a-recession doctrine that has supposedly displaced that bad old Keynesianism. And it’s manifestly ‘Not Working’ in the United Kingdom.”
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Republicans Urge Romney to Promote Positive Vision – NYTimes.com
“Prominent party leaders, unsettled by the frequently combative tone of Mr. Romney’s presidential campaign, are pressing the presumptive Republican nominee to leaven his harsh criticism of President Obama with an optimistic conservative vision that can inspire the party faithful, appeal to swing voters and set out a governing agenda should he win in November. Their worry: that the angry tenor of the Republican primary season could carry over into the general election, leaving Mr. Romney trapped in a punch-counterpunch campaign that would limit his ability to define fundamental differences with the Democrats. In interviews, these Republicans said that Mr. Romney must focus more on what he is for, not just what he is against.”
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Romney’s Radical Theory of Fairness — Daily Intel
“Obama wants the government to do a bit more to reduce inequality, but he is not proposing to change the United States’ place as the most unequal advanced economy on Earth. His opponent has adopted the position that any interference with the natural level of inequality created by the market is illegitimate. He may not want to take that philosophy to its absolute limit, but he is running on a program that would go very far toward implementing it. The desire by Democrats to center the campaign on this basic philosophical choice is not a distraction, nor is it an attack on wealth. It’s an attempt to highlight what the election is actually about.”
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Subsidize Students, Not Tax Cuts – NYTimes.com
“But nothing is that easy or sensible anymore in Washington, where House Republicans are far more interested in cutting taxes, largely for the rich, than they are in helping low- and middle-income students get a college education. House Republicans say the country cannot afford the $6 billion a year that it costs to pay for the lower rates. The Ryan budget, recently approved by the House, would allow the rates to double, and, at the same time, would cut taxes by $10 trillion over a decade.”
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The sore losers club – War Room – Salon.com
“Is Rick Santorum bitter enough to join the exclusive fraternity of candidates who just couldn’t let it go?”
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Rubio can’t defend Romney’s lack of foreign policy leadership | Democrats.org
“But the most notable thing about Rubio’s speech was what he didn’t say: The remarks were tellingly short on praise for Mitt Romney’s foreign policy plans. That’s because there’s nothing to praise.”
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Obama embraces pop culture | TPM2012
“President Obama’s ease as a campaigner — as opposed to his likely Republican rival — is once again emerging. Here are a few scenes from Obama’s pop-culture push.”
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Obama’s reelection challenge – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
“That’s why so much turns on whether Obama can successfully persuade people that whatever Romney’s aura of competence, they should base their decision on the fact that he’s promising an approach that we’ve already tried, and that has already failed.”
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