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The Perils of Automatic Budgeting

March 26, 2013, Philip A. Wallach
Ironically, Obama tried harder and longer than the results merited to work cooperatively with Republicans in Congress. He has learned painfully that his public embrace of a policy virtually ensures Republican opposition and that intensive negotiations with Republican leaders are likely to lead to a dead end. No bourbon and branch-water laced meetings with Republicans in Congress or pre-emptive compromises with them will induce cooperative behavior.
March 6, 2013, Thomas E. Mann, U.S. News & World Report
15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget—Part II: Addressing Entitlements, Taxation, and Revenues

February 26, 2013
15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget—Part I: Budgeting for a Modern Military

February 22, 2013
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The public views a downgrade of the U.S. debt rating as just one more sign that the government doesn’t know what it’s doing.
January 28, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott, Reuters
Warriors Against Waste: Cutting Defense Spending through Reform?

January 24, 2013
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Mr. Boehner, Tear Down This Debt Ceiling!

January 2013, Philip A. Wallach
Lost Opportunity for Jobs and Growth

December 28, 2012, Alice M. Rivlin
Soak the Middle Class! In Praise of Higher Taxes on Everybody

December 13, 2012, William A. Galston
How to Solve the Fiscal Cliff? Start With a Gag Order

December 6, 2012, William A. Galston
The No Good, Very Bad Outlook for the Working-Class American Man

December 5, 2012, Jonathan Rauch
The Fiscal Cliff – A Live Web Chat with Isabel Sawhill

November 28, 2012
[America] has moved so very quickly from the broad argument of the campaign to the great difficulty of governing under a deadline.
November 28, 2012, E.J. Dionne, Jr., New Haven Register
A Fiscal Cliff Compromise That Could Work For Everyone

November 21, 2012, William A. Galston
Forces within the Democratic Party are clearly mobilizing to prevent President Obama from returning to anything resembling the 2011 negotiations. Where [Nancy Pelosi] will come down on that, I don't know.
November 14, 2012, William A. Galston, The Daily Beast
Cut Spending or Raise Taxes? Follow the Bipartisan Bowles-Simpson Formula and Do Both

October 24, 2012, Isabel V. Sawhill
They'll defer action [on the budget] for as long as they think they can get away with it... It could be six months. It could be three months.
October 13, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Kansas City Star
Civil Conversations: Restoring Civility to the Debt Discussion

October 9, 2012
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…[T]he idea [for Republicans] was to take the country's full faith and credit hostage in order to achieve immediate cuts and discretionary domestic spending at a time the economy was not yet back into a self-sustaining recovery. It's sort of Econ 101. That is in how you proceed. They didn't get much in the way of spending cuts, but they did manage to decrease the confidence in the economy.
August 6, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Diane Rehm Show
Does Journalistic "Balance" Hurt America?: A Q&A with Thomas Mann

July 31, 2012, Trudy Lieberman and Thomas E. Mann
The Debate over the Fiscal Cliff and Tax Cuts: A Live Web Chat with Ron Haskins

July 25, 2012
The Republican leadership compromised just enough [on the debt ceiling] to make sure they got a deal done at the last minute, and if you were [willing to make a wager], you would probably say that’s what will happen again the next time around because they don’t want to be responsible for plunging the economy into chaos.
July 25, 2012, Philip A. Wallach, Voice of America
Sequestration is Not Defense “Armageddon”

June 26, 2012, Peter W. Singer
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Strategic Reform Can Help Offset Budget Impasse

June 24, 2012, Peter W. Singer
Israel's Spy Revolt

May 10, 2012, Natan B. Sachs