Elections

Budget Battles

  • Romney May Be a Victim of His Own 'Romnesia'

    By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post

    Ten days after failing to sail into the White House, Mitt Romney is already being tossed overboard by his party. The former Massachusetts governor — who attracted $1 billion in funding and 59 million...

  • The Long, Treacherous Climb Up the Fiscal Cliff

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    The so-called fiscal cliff is one of those rare issues where everyone has an incentive to predict the worst. Barack Obama thinks it will force Republicans to accept higher taxes on the rich,...

  • Obama’s ‘Fairness” Tax is Political, Not Fiscal

    By Edward Morrissey

    The debate over the fiscal cliff in less than seven weeks has produced some amusing attempts to capture the moment through common cultural references National Journal reported last week that some...

  • Obama Takes His 'Tax the Rich' Show on the Road

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    President Obama says you can’t change Washington from the inside and so will be using his bully pulpit in the coming weeks to whip up public support for his approach to dealing with the looming...

  • Business Claims a Stake in Obama's Cliff Deal

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Following his first news conference since the election, President Obama met with a dozen CEOs on Wednesday afternoon to signal a new start with a group that has viewed his administration as hostile...