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Guardian Unlimited
| 7 months ago
New York Tim Geithner was on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday to defend Barack Obama's position over the fiscal cliff. Photograph: CBS news/Reuters Republican leader John Boehner said Sunday he was "flabbergasted" by Treasury secretary Tim Geithner...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
The Washington Post The fiscal cliff nears and judging from the rhetoric coming from congressional Republicans and the White House of late, a deal is not near. (House Speaker John Boehner declared stalemate late last week.) Of course, like a...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
White House negotiator Timothy Geithner insisted Sunday there would be no deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" unless Republicans allowed tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to rise. Talks to avoid the dreaded "fiscal cliff" are at a dangerous impasse...
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Japan Times
| 7 months ago
As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there's an agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff," it will almost certainly contain large tax increases mostly or entirely on the wealthy. President Barack Obama defines them as...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
NPR's All Things Considered on Friday night repeatedly came to Susan Rice's defense -- and NPR journalists repeatedly played dumb, pretending to be confounded why critics would object to her lying about Benghazi on five Sunday talk shows. While NPR's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Those are the kinds of things that would get Republicans interested in new revenue," McConnell said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal . "The nexus for us is: revenue equals genuine entitlement eligibility changes." Democrats have long...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
Even those who might have supported her are floating other names. Should President Obama nominate Susan Rice to be the next Secretary of State and her loyal boss may have been pushed into doing so by the clatter of Senate Republicans eager to prevent...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
New York President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address to the nation to seek support against Republican opposition to a proposed fiscal cliff deal. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP With a month left to break the deadlock over the fiscal cliff ,...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is vowing to join with other Democrats to limit the use of the filibuster a move she said will help break gridlock in Washington by curbing the ability of Republicans to block votes. In what would be one...
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Courier & Press
| 7 months ago
Frank O'Nan, Henderson The time has come for Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and the obstructionists in the House to work with the president for the good of this nation. For four years McConnell's one goal was to stop President Obama at every point, while...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Associated Press 2012-12-01 12:58 PM Washington politicians have one month to step back from the so-called "fiscal cliff," across-the-board tax hikes and austerity-driven spending cuts likely...
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Popeater
| 7 months ago
Follow share this story Despite countless meetings, discussions and briefings to explain what occurred during the recent terrorist attack on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Senator John McCain and a handful of Republicans will not stop...
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Mesa Press
| 7 months ago
Kyla Brown, Staff Writer November 30, 2012 Filed under Opinion Presidential candidate Mitt Romney thought that he could win over the youth vote by simply promising more jobs and a better economy...The youth of America made their opinion loud and...
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The Hutchinson News
| 7 months ago
The entitlement commitments made in a past generation have been rendered untenable by demographics and health cost inflation. The problem is no one's particular fault, but it is very, very large. Failing to get our borrowing under control would deny...
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Kansas City Star
| 7 months ago
One month before the deadline, negotiations between President Barack Obama and Republicans to save the economy from a plunge over the fiscal cliff are still in the throat-clearing stage. Serious bargaining is on hold while the two sides vie for...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Committee, he'd normally be one of the loudest voices defending U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice against GOP attacks that she mishandled her role in explaining an attack on the U.S...In September, as Republicans homed in on Rice for what she said in...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
That's a shame, because Rice isn't the right choice for this critical position -- for reasons that have nothing to do with the Benghazi attack. Before I get to those reasons, let me bury the flap over Rice's minimal role in the Benghazi brouhaha. In...
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The Gleaner
| 7 months ago
We must build a bridge to somewhere to save us from plunging over the fiscal cliff and carry us safely to whatever is on the other side...Here's the bad news: We've failed for decades to build it because our leaders haven't had the guts to tell us...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
John Kerry, right, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, as an alternative. As President Obama's potential nominee for secretary of state, Susan E. Rice , comes under increasing fire, Congressional Republicans appear to be coalescing around a...
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Politico
| 7 months ago
Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday that Congress should have mercy on United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, who has been heavily criticized for her public statements made immediately after attacks at U.S. posts overseas in September.
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Belleville Times
| 7 months ago
John McCain finally came face-to-face with their prey this week.|The two angry Republican senators have been plotting for weeks to stop Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, from rising any further in the Washington firmament...
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The Journal Gazette
| 7 months ago
House Speaker John Boehner met with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Thursday and accused Democrats afterward of failing to outline specific cuts to avert a fiscal cliff that threatens to send the economy into recession. No substantive progress has...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
Updated Democrats complained that Republicans have yet to name their price for enacting legislation that would preserve tax cuts for the vast majority of Americans next year while raising revenue from the wealthiest 2 percent. Republicans, meanwhile,...
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Forbes
| 7 months ago
If Washington can agree on a budget deal in the next two weeks, America can avert the plunge over the Cliff. Otherwise, tax rates rise and government spending cuts go into effect. Whatever the outcome, this Washington-style drama creates winners and...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 7 months ago
Ohio congressional Republicans say they will not back away completely from an anti-tax pledge they signed, but some are willing to raise tax revenue through capping or eliminating scores of deductions and credits available to wealthier taxpayers. As...
