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Happy Hour Roundup
* House Republicans unveil another proposal to temporarily fund the government with $6 billion in cuts, and oddly enough, Senate Democrats are far quicker to embrace the proposal than conservative groups are, a sign of how far to the right...
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Greg Sargent
| March 11, 2011; 6:57 PM ET |
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Do people care about the deficit?
Duncan Black poses a question: Nobody cares about the deficit. Why don't people understand this? Matthew Yglesias attempts an answer: Politicians don't understand that the voters don't care about the deficit because the voters themselves don't understand that they don't...
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Greg Sargent
| March 11, 2011; 12:15 PM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* House GOP to take plunge into "entitlement" cuts: GOP Rep Paul Ryan says in a new interview that House Republicans will take the first step into the "entitlements" briar patch, vowing to offer fundamental changes to Medicare and Medicaid...
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Greg Sargent
| March 11, 2011; 8:30 AM ET |
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Happy Hour Roundup
* Taken all together, liberal groups have raised nearly $2 million for recall drives against Wisconsin GOP state senators, a sign that the national Dem base won't lose interest in this standoff anytime soon. * Sam Stein's reporting reveals the...
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Greg Sargent
| March 10, 2011; 6:26 PM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* The smoke clears from the wreckage in Wisconsin: As everyone takes stock of yesterday's events, it's becoming clearer that the situation in Wisconsin is now going to escalate exponentially, and on multiple fronts. Today labor leaders and strategists involved...
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Greg Sargent
| March 10, 2011; 8:35 AM ET |
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Happy Hour Roundup
UPDATE, 7:59 p.m.: The Wisconsin Democratic Party sends over a copy of the forthcoming statement from Dem chair Mike Tate, and note the explicit threat to mount a recall drive targeting Governor Scott Walker: "Using tactics that trample on the...
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Greg Sargent
| March 9, 2011; 6:43 PM ET |
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