Peter Wallsten
Recent Stories By Peter Wallsten:
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Fiscal Cliff Cuts Will Diminish Obama’s Second TermDecember 9, 2012
Even if President Obama succeeds in getting Republicans to agree to tax hikes on the wealthy as part of a “fiscal cliff” deal, the country’s grim budget realities will still cast a long shadow —...
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'Proud' Anti-Tax Pledge Signers Still Bow to Norquist December 3, 2012
At times, it has seemed that Republican lawmakers eyeing a fiscal compromise with President Obama were moving closer to a public split with Grover Norquist, author of the famous no-new-taxes pledge...
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How Obama Failed to Clinch the Debt Deal March 19, 2012
President Obama had just arrived home, walking across Lafayette Square after attending Sunday services with his family at St. John’s Church. In the West Wing, Obama ducked into the spacious office of...
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Romney Camp Shaken by Newt ShowingDecember 1, 2011
All along, everything has gone according to Mitt Romney’s plan. His strategists didn’t believe that Tim Pawlenty would catch on. They were confident that Michele Bachmann would fade. They were...
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Obama Uses Tax-Cut Pledge to Needle RepublicansNovember 23, 2011
MANCHESTER, N.H. — With taxes set to rise for nearly every American worker, President Obama sought Tuesday to highlight his tax-cutting bona fides, accusing Republicans of hypocrisy if they do not...
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Super Panel's Failure Sets Stage for Bush Tax Cuts FightNovember 21, 2011
The imminent failure of the congressional deficit “supercommittee,” which had a chance to settle the nation’s tax policy for the next decade, would thrust the much-contested Bush tax cuts into the...
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Rubio Risky for GOP TicketOctober 27, 2011
Republicans who are eager to repair the party’s battered image among Hispanic voters and unseat President Obama next year have long promoted a single-barrel solution to their two-pronged problem:...
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Obama 2012 Campaign Targets MinoritiesSeptember 25, 2011
President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow...
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Women Felt Ignored in Obama White HouseSeptember 20, 2011
Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff...
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Senators Again Exploring a ‘Grand Bargain’September 9, 2011
More than two dozen senators from both parties met privately this week to revive hopes of a grand debt-cutting bargain — exploring how to push the newly formed debt “supercommittee” to find far more...
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GOP Forces Obama to Move Jobs SpeechSeptember 1, 2011
President Obama announced Wednesday his intention to lay out a new jobs plan in a speech to Congress next week that strategists hope will set a new tone for his tenure. But the announcement...
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White House Focuses More on Blacks' Economic PlightAugust 26, 2011
From the start of his history-making tenure, the nation’s first black president took care never to be seen making policy or political decisions aimed solely or directly at black America. His position...