White House

Budget Battles

  • Obama vs. Romney: The Acceptance Speeches as Word Clouds

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    To get a quick visual representation of what President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney said in accepting their parties’ nominations this week and last, we plugged the full text of their speeches into...

  • Dems’ Deal: Entitlement Cuts for Tax Increases

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    If President Obama wins a second term, what’s the likelihood that Democrats and Republicans will compromise on fiscal issues? The GOP will likely control one and possibly both houses of Congress,

  • Woodward: Congress Snubbed Obama in Debt Talks

    By Steve Luxenberg, The Washington Post

    A new book by journalist Bob Woodward says that a combination of miscalculations, ideological rigidity and discord within the leadership of both parties brought the U.S. government to the brink of a...

  • Clint Eastwood's Empty Chair: Built to Last

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    People are still scratching their heads over the “empty chair” speech that actor and director Clint Eastwood made last week at the GOP convention in Tampa. His address to an “invisible” President...

  • Clinton Commits Obama to an Audacious Agenda

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Former President Bill Clinton made a case for Obama’s reelection on Wednesday night as complex as his own tenure in the White House: tightly focused but rambling, folksy yet wonkish, a call for unity...