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It's pretty amusing that Republicans are lambasting Obama for daring to stick his oar into the immigration reform process: ...Republi...

Here we go again: Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, one of the Quixotes of the Senate Gang of Six, is writhing out of Grover Norquist'...

Nancy Pelosi was not entirely clear when she said that Democrats negotiating (if such a thing is possible) with the GOP on the bipartisan s...

A clue here , I think, to why the sudden revival of the Senate Gang of Six's deficit reduction plan, modeled on Bowles-Simpson, won a ...

There is a good deal of confusion and obfuscation on both sides of the debate over tax reform  -- at least, over the kind of centrist tax re...

Jonathan Bernstein points out that Obama today delivered red meat to some very anemic-feeling progressives: Liberals like to think of them...

On the theory that presidential advocacy on a given issue polarizes the parties on that issue, I have more than once suggested half-serious...

As David Brooks noted in the midst of the 2008 campaign, Obama has put himself in a box on taxes. Here's David Plouffe on Meet the Pres...

Repetition, repetition, repetition.  In trying to discern Obama's intentions and strategy regarding long term tax/budget reform, I have ...

A dozen or more years ago, I wrote a press release announcing the opening in Manhattan of the Greek seafood restaurant Milos Estiatorio.  Th...

When the Wall Street Journal reported that a new Senate gang of six was beginning negotiations toward a comprehensive tax/budget reform deal...