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Madam Speaker, please negotiate. It’s good policy and it gives you the high ground

January 20, 2019 Arthur Lieber Bi-Partisan, Budget, Immigration Leave a comment

It can be very difficult to make Donald Trump look good to reasonable people, but Nancy Pelosi may be trying to do so. If she portrays the Democrats as the party of intransigence and inflexibility, she is giving Trump a gift that he neither deserves nor could ever earn.

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Shipping-Containers

Revocable Compromise: A creative way for Dems to compromise on “The Wall”

January 4, 2019 Arthur Lieber Budget, Immigration, Politics Leave a comment

As with so many issues that confront the nation, we are divided by party, by culture and by our sense of what is logical

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Trump Infrastructure

Next: Republican Meanness in an Infrastructure Bill

December 19, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Budget, Government, Infrastructure, Republican Brain, Trump Leave a comment

The House has passed a tax bill that is disproportionately kind to the wealthy; the Senate is about to do the same and then

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CBO

Republicans try to punish CBO for telling the truth

July 27, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Budget, Congress, Republicans Leave a comment

The CBO [Congressional Budget Office] earned the ire of Republicans when it estimated that the GOP’s bill to repeal and/or replace Obamacare would take

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cuts

Poverty stings: What’s left in grandma’s wallet after program cuts

July 20, 2017 Glenn Koenen Budget, Missouri region, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

Alas, it’s a lousy time to be a senior in Missouri.  Besides the Circuit Breaker, other special help for our older neighbors is under

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Medicare-for-All

Democrats: Keep it simple – Medicare-for-All

May 6, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Budget, Community/Common good, Health care, Republican Brain Leave a comment

As Republicans recklessly move forward in doing damage to health care in America, it’s important for Democrats to have a clear vision for the

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A budget based on tweets and bogus campaign blurts

March 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Budget One comment

Where did Donald Trump’s absurd, brutal and immoral budget proposal come from? His recently appointed Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, has now told us: “If

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OCD

Does Paul Ryan’s OCD trump empathy?

March 16, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Budget, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

Paul Ryan never seems happier than when talking about the money that can be saved by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. It

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Hillary has a progressive view of deficit and national debt. [They’re different, by the way.]

September 4, 2016 Willy Kessler 2016 Election, Budget, Democrats, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

There must be something in the local water that leads Missouri Democrats to wail and figuratively rend their garments over the question of deficits

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A MO Democratic candidate calls for a Balanced Budget amendment. Wait, what?

June 27, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Budget, Government, Missouri region, Politics One comment

In a shocking policy statement released last week, Democrat Jason Kander—who is running for US Senate to unseat Republican incumbent Roy Blunt—announced that he

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