Budget battle came down to 3 men and their weaknesses
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 10th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Budget battle came down to 3 men and their weaknesses
The story of Capitol Hill’s week on the brink — which brought Washington within an hour of a government shutdown — is a narrative of three men, each with a confining sense of his own limitations.
Can Obama cut the budget and keep Democrats happy?
In his first two years, President Obama pursued an agenda that dramatically increased government spending and ushered in the biggest change in social welfare policy since the Great Society. When he spoke to the country late Friday night, he sounded like a born-again budget cutter.
Drafting a presidential candidate is tougher than it sounds
Max Eden, a senior at Yale University, spent summer 2008 stumping for Barack Obama. He spent summer 2010 souring on the president over deficit spending and what he calls Obama’s “fancy rhetoric and empty promises.”
AP News in Brief
As Obama’s 2012 campaign takes shape, Chicago reclaiming role as re-election nerve center
