Elections

Budget Battles

  • Key Democratic Donors Turned Off by PAC Tactics

    By ALINA SELYUKH, Reuters

    Many of the key Democratic donors are alarmed that PACs have been focused almost exclusively on spending tens of millions on ads to attack presidential candidates. Nearly all of that spending has...

  • Obama Rips into Romney for Praising Ryan Budget

    By Jeff Mason, Reuters

    When President Barack Obama criticized Mitt Romney by name this week for embracing a controversial Republican budget proposal, he worded his attack carefully and with bite. "(Romney) said that he's '...

  • Santorum Confers with Conservatives

    By Sam Youngman and ALISTAIR BELL, Reuters

    Tumbling in the polls and under increasing pressure to abandon his White House campaign, Republican Rick Santorum huddled with conservative leaders and aides on Thursday to plot strategy.Among the...

  • Obama's Big Spending Vision Gives Romney an Edge

    By Edward Morrissey

    With the Republican nomination almost in the bag, Barack Obama and his likely opponent, Mitt Romney gave competing visions of America in two dramatic speeches this week. Both argued for change, but...

  • Earmark Obsession Skewers A Lot More than Pork

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    n April 1, Richard Cowan of Reuters reported that some House Republicans are warming to the idea of bringing back “earmarks” in appropriations bills. It was not an April Fools’ joke. Since the mid-...