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GOP on the Losing End of 4 Fiscal Crises
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesDAVID A. FAHRENTHOLDThe Washington PostOctober 20, 2013There was so much more they wanted to do.Three years ago, Republicans retook the House with a fire-eating confidence...
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House GOP Suffers Epic Collapse in Public Support
iStockphoto/The Fiscal timesJosh BoakThe Fiscal TimesOctober 21, 2013CNN released a new poll on Monday with terrible news for the GOP—54 percent of Americans think it’s “bad for the country” that...
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More Shutdown Fallout for the GOP in the Senate
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Eric Pianin, Josh BoakThe Fiscal TimesOctober 22, 2013By pursuing a failed government shutdown strategy, Republicans may have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory...
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Economic Anxiety Has Consumers Clutching Wallets
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesPOLYANA DA COSTABankrateOctober 22, 2013More than four years after the last recession officially ended, Americans are still holding onto their wallets tightly as they worry...
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Obama and Sebelius: "The Dog Ate My Homework"
iStockphotoEdward MorrisseyThe Fiscal TimesOctober 24, 2013When I first started reading comic strips more than 40 years ago, one of the most popular was Bil Keane’s Family Circus, a lighthearted look...
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Earnings Season: Who Will Play the Shutdown Blame Game?
iStockphotoSuzanne McGeeThe Fiscal TimesOctober 25, 2013For most of the year, analysts have been promising us that the slow rate of growth in corporate profits in the first six months of 2013 would be...
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How Congress Could Avoid Another Fiscal Crisis
Emily Flake/The Fiscal TimesEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesOctober 31, 2013Something strange is happening on Capitol Hill these days.Committee leaders from the House and Senate are meeting face-to-face to...
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The Rising Cost of Gridlock
Puck/Library of CongressBruce BartlettThe Fiscal TimesNovember 1, 2013The great weakness of the American political system is gridlock. It was baked in the cake by the Founding Fathers, who deliberately...
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4 Takeaways from the October Jobs Report
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesYuval RosenbergThe Fiscal TimesNovember 8, 2013Suddenly, it seems the holiday season might be merrier than economists had expected. The economy added 204,000 jobs in...
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Taxpayers Get a Whopper of a Bill for the Shutdown
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesNovember 8, 2013Evidence of the economic carnage wrought by last month’s 16-day partial government shutdown keeps piling up, and it doesn’t make...
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Congressional Approval Rating Sinks to Another Record Low
REUTERS/Jason Reed Yuval RosenbergThe Fiscal TimesNovember 12, 2013If you thought congressional approval ratings couldn’t drop any lower, you were wrong.Americans’ already dismal view of Congress has...
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CBO’s Elmendorf Downplays Need for Big Budget Deal
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesNovember 13, 2013Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf on Wednesday offered advice to lawmakers trying to negotiate a budget deal to...
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Obamacare Mess Defines GOP 2014 Campaign Strategy
REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueSteve HollandReutersNovember 18, 2013Just a few short weeks ago, Republican elders could only hope that time would make voters forget about the government shutdown the party...
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House GOP Slams the Door on Immigration Reform
Getty Images/iStockphoto/TFTEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesNovember 19, 2013As the House wrapped up its business last week, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) posed the question of the hour to Eric Cantor,...
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Government Pensions Under Fire Once Again
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesDecember 4, 2013Liberal supporters circle the wagons. The heat is on unions again because of what many believe are overly generous benefits to...
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Cynical Americans Aren’t Banking on a Budget Deal
Eric PianinThe Fiscal TimesDecember 10, 2013Americans could get an early Christmas gift in the form of a budget deal from Congress that would cancel a second round of across-the-board sequester cuts...
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The Word Voters Don’t Want to Hear in 2014
Maureen MackeyThe Fiscal TimesDecember 20, 2013Here’s yet another cruel blow to President Obama’s signature health care law as we close out 2013 and head into 2014: More than 4 in 10 Americans, if they...
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Debt Ceiling Déjà Vu: New Showdown Ahead?
The Fiscal TimesEric PianinThe Fiscal TimesJanuary 17, 2014With the $1 trillion fiscal 2014 spending deal now safely behind them, Congress and the White House must once again turn to the debt...
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Mitch McConnell Hints at Another Debt Ceiling Showdown
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Eric PianinThe Fiscal TimesJanuary 26, 2014Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday indicated the Republicans will try once again to gain a major legislative...
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Business Groups Warn GOP to Drop Debt Ceiling Battle
iStockphoto/The Fiscal TimesRob GarverThe Fiscal TimesJanuary 31, 2014On the same day that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urged Democrats to stand firm in demanding that Republicans allow a “clean”...
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