Elections

Budget Battles

  • Do Tax Cuts Spur Economic Growth? The GOP Thinks So

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    House Speaker John Boehner has offered to support an increase in revenues as part of a major budget deal to reduce the deficit and avoid a fiscal cliff, but to do it without raising tax rates...

  • GOP Plan B: Embrace the Nonwhite American Future

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    The big story out of Tuesday’s election is that Republicans finally understand that they cannot win as a lily-white party any more. Smart Republicans have been warning about this for some time, but...

  • Guess What Tops Obama's New To-Do List?

    By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

    The election is over. After three feisty debates, hundreds of campaign stops, billions spent on ads and countless candidate "robo-calls," America has re-elected Barack Obama as Commander in Chief...

  • Spend Billions on Elections, Get Lousy Returns

    By Dan Eggen and Tw Farnam, The Washington Post

    Never before has so much political money been spent to achieve so little. Record spending by independent groups, which in many ways defined how campaigns were waged this year, had no dis­cern­ible...

  • Boehner Floats the “C” Word (Compromise) for Cliff Deal

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    As the country lurches headlong toward the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner offered an olive branch to make peace with the newly re-elected President Obama on Wednesday. The top Republican on...