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| Jennifer Rubin: Why the left got taken to the cleaners Jan 2nd 2013, 15:15 Conservatives are bemoaning an agreement that made permanent nearly all the Bush tax cuts, kept the vast majority of estates permanently sheltered from the death tax and maintained a large differential for capital gains even for the wealthy. One conserative wag remarked in disgust to me Sunday evening: "Where did these people get the idea you get everything you want in politics?" Indeed, the right-wing complainers might want to consider how badly the left regards this deal. Read full article >>   |  | Jennifer Rubin: Did Benghazi do in Hillary Clinton? Jan 2nd 2013, 14:30 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after a charmed tenure in which few, if any, foreign policy flubs were attributed to her, finds her reputation in tatters in the wake of two Benghazi reports finding serious and widespread lapses at the State Department that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: What leaders do: Cast tough votes Jan 2nd 2013, 14:01 In the end the House vote wasn't all that close (257-167) to pass the Senate's fiscal cliff compromise. There were 85 Republicans, including the speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who voted for the bill. Almost inexplicably, Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Kevin McCarthy (R- Calif.), after the alternative to the Senate version failed to get 218 votes, voted against the measure, thereby making the choice to raise taxes on all Americans. They also made themselves effectively useless in future negotiations, proving themselves to be unreliable "leaders." Ironically, had McCarthy done his job and properly whipped the Plan B the GOP would have been in a much better spot. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Lessons learned in fiscal follies Jan 2nd 2013, 13:30 No one said lawmaking was pretty. But in the last few days we've seen wily veterans (e.g. Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner) figure a path to sanity, sidestepping extremists on both sides and handling their own side like a world-class jockey steering a temperamental 3-year-old horse to the finish line. There are plenty of miffed activists on both sides, but they should breathe deeply and reflect on some critical lessons: Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits Jan 2nd 2013, 12:45 Inconvenient truth. Elliott Abrams reminds us that "conservative Republicans are more than twice as supportive of Israel as liberal Democrats, among whom support for Israel is not very much greater than support for Palestinians. When I point out these numbers, and others like them, to Democratic Party leaders they usually get angry and say 'Israel should not be a partisan issue. Stop making Israel a partisan issue.' That's a foolish reply, for every poll I have seen in recent years gives the same general result. Support for Israel on the Left in Europe, in America, in the Democratic Party is eroding. That's an obvious fact." Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: To govern or not? Jan 1st 2013, 22:27 At 5:15 p.m., House Republicans were to meet to decide what to do: Pass the Senate "fiscal cliff" package or do something else. The something else in this case presumably would be adding spending cuts, but, in fact, that would end the negotiating process, given that many in the Senate have left town and those who haven't are in no mood to respond to the House. House Republicans are convinced (for good reason) that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) would prefer to go over the cliff and blame the GOP; refusing to pass the only bill on the table would accomplish that. Read full article >> | |
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