Allowing Any Tax Cuts to Expire Would Be Foolish
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 15th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Allowing Any Tax Cuts to Expire Would Be Foolish
Rahm Enters Chicago Mayor’s Race as Favorite
Lynn Sweet, Politics Daily
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel “officially” launched his Chicago mayoral bid on Saturday — a formality since he has been campaigning for five weeks — casting himself as an anti-tax, crime fighting, pro-education candidate.He pledged no tax hikes despite the city's budget crisis, making communities safe from pervasive gang violence, reducing the award of no-bid contracts, and bringing about improvements in city schools.
Debt Commission’s Step Toward Fiscal Sanity
David Broder, Wash Post
Obama Aides Engage in “Soul-Searching”
Anne Kornblut, Washington Post
After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama's top advisers have concluded that the “shellacking” Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their own failure to live up to expectations set during the 2008 campaign, not merely the typical political cycles and poor messaging they pointed to at first.While the president has been on a trip to Asia for the past 10 days, all but a few of his top aides stayed behind to figure out what went so wrong and what to do about it. Wearing casual clothes and with the White House to themselves, they…
