Compare and Contrast

Two different views of last night’s SOTU response by Rep. Paul Ryan: Paul Krugman: The Ryan Response … was as bad as you might expect. Lots of breast-beating about deficits; you’d never know that no leading Republican, Ryan very much included, has offered a serious proposal to cut the deficit. Some cooked statistics about federal [...]

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President, Rebounding, Gives Opponents Pause Suddenly, Republicans face an unanticipated problem: less than three months after their midterm triumphs, President Obama has regained political momentum. As Mr. Obama approaches the State of the Union address on Tuesday, various polls show him rising toward or beyond 50 percent approval of his job performance. Before his first [...]