Right Turn Archive: Budget
Sen. Ron Johnson denounces 'mob rule'
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. For a freshman, he's entirely fluid on the issues and easily navigates between specifics and larger...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 11, 2011; 8:25 AM ET |
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Red flag: Biggest bond fund dumps U.S. Treasuries
Last fall Jason Thomas, writing in National Affairs, explained the danger of our increasing debt: The government borrows in a currency that it prints, and it is difficult to conceive of a situation in which it would be more advantageous...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 10, 2011; 11:46 AM ET |
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Democrats bewitched, bothered and bewildered
Wednesday was not a banner day for Democrats. They were dismissed by the White House and then defeated in the Senate. At Jay Carney's press briefing, there was this exchange: Q: But yesterday several leading Senate Democrats said that these...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 10, 2011; 9:59 AM ET |
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Harry Reid blows it again
Just as we saw on the Senate votes on taxes during the lame-duck session, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) led his party over the cliff on spending cuts. On the Senate Democrats' paltry package, Reid could round up only...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 9, 2011; 4:45 PM ET |
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Budget shenanigans
The Associated Press reports on the Senate votes today: The Senate is expected Wednesday to defeat both a slashing Republican budget bill and a less painful Democratic plan, in a pair of politically tinged votes cast ironically with an eye...
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| March 9, 2011; 4:09 PM ET |
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Bowles and Simpson vs. do-nothingism
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of the debt commission, testified before the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday. Their opening remarks are noteworthy and highlight the unfortunate gap between their serious efforts to stave off a fiscal debacle and...
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Jennifer Rubin
| March 9, 2011; 9:13 AM ET |
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