(AP) Boehner tells Geithner, ‘You can’t be serious’WASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says he was “flabbergasted” when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (GYT’-nur) pitched the White House plan to save the nation from the “fiscal cliff.” Boehner tells “Fox News Sunday” that
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday said the White House must agree to make structural changes to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare now if Republicans decide to include more tax revenue in any budget deal to avoid
A few months ago, 85 members of Congress sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter about the swatting of four conservative bloggers, but the story got little traction in the mainstream media. However, when former American Idol judge Simon Cowell and
(AP) Congress looks at doing away with the $1 billBy KEVIN FREKINGAssociated PressWASHINGTONAmerican consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what’s best for them either. Congressional auditors
The twelve members of Congress who constituted the Deficit Committee have failed. The stock market, on Monday, certainly voted with its feet, fleeing equities as though the New York Stock Exchange were infested with Scarlet Fever. (An estimated trillion dollars
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed today that although Palestine forced a vote in the UN over observer status — a maneuver the US has expressly been against — it still wants Congress to continue to give almost $500 million
Keith Koffler over at the invaluable White House Dossier writes: The massive spending cuts and tax increases set to kick in January 2 will cause a second recession, from which we may not emerge for many months. The economy may
On Thursday, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said the final deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff will include “over $1 trillion” in new revenues paired with “significant spending cuts.” In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Baucus (D-MT), the Chairman of
Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) signed the anti-tax “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” when he was running for Congress in 2010 to represent New York’s 20th Congressional District, but he now claims he is not bound by the pledge because, after redistricting, he
While members of Congress continue to wrangle over whether the nation can avoid the “fiscal cliff,” taxpayer funds are still being spent on what many might consider to be the less important details, like the official portraits of White House
The media is reprising its role as a modern-day Diogenes, searching for “honest” GOP legislators who will save Democrats from their own policies. While Democrats are never pressed on the need to go against their own constituencies and advocate spending
WASHINGTON, November 29–Sen. Sessions delivered remarks on the Senate floor today about the secret, year-end fiscal negotiations. “Over the last two years, Congress and the President have held an endless series of secret negotiations. There have been gangs of six
In a clear sign of how Republicans are losing the messaging battle on taxes, 61% of registered voters favor raising taxes on those making $250,000 a year, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted Nov. 20-25. More surprisingly, 44% of voters
The fiscal cliff debate is a reprise of the TARP debate of late 2008, with the Republicans under pressure to do “something” to stave off economic collapse. This time, the threat is about a crisis that may be about to
During the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the administration’s goal was to make “student loans available to as many people as possible” regardless of credit score, something Obama called an “economic imperative in the 21st
House Democrats on Wednesday said they would not agree to any Medicare cuts during the fiscal cliff negotiations. While Democrats have pressured Republicans to raise taxes on families making $250,000, there has not been any pressure whatsoever put on Democrats
The Department of Justice and House Republicans will meet in the very near future to discuss the latter’s access to documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-walking scheme that allowed over 2,000 guns to land in the hands
Some of the country’s most prominent business leaders regretted watching the debt ceiling negotiations from the sidelines in 2011, and they are making amends during the fiscal cliff negotiations by going to Washington to urge the White House and Congress
If you want a sign of how the GOP Leadership have cornered themselves in the fiscal cliff negotiations, look no further than an e-mail the Obama White House sent today to its supporters. In the message, Obama rallies the public
Today, President Obama announced at yet another one of his campaign events/photo ops at the White House that he would “go anywhere and I’ll do whatever it takes to get this done. It’s too important for Washington to screw this
Today, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) rejected an attempt by Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) to leverage the Republicans into supporting a bill that would only maintain current tax rates for those earning less than $200,000 per year. Obama
Black leaders in former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s congressional district are worried that a white candidate may win the special election for Jackson’s seat because multiple candidates in the primary may split the black vote. Former Rep. Debbie Halvorson (pictured),
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Breitbart News provided extensive coverage of the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations. The Government Accountability Institute’s comprehensive 108-page report–“America The Vulnerable: Are Foreign and Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?”–revealed
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) challenged Republicans like Senators Saxby Chambliss (GA) and Lindsey Graham (SC), who have indicated they may break the anti-tax pledge they signed, to stop talking and fall in line with Democrats to raise taxes
How is it that the GOP is so feckless and ineffective that it can’t even convince the 48% who voted for Romney that raising taxes on those making over $250,000 is both pointless and bad policy: Sixty percent of all
