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The President sends mixed signals on the fiscal cliff
The fiscal cliff is a test of President Obama's ability to negotiate with people with whom he disagrees. He was unsuccessful in this regard in his first term. If he fails again over the next seven weeks, American taxpayers and workers will suffer for it.
Fiscal cliff diving
A smaller version of that deal is, in theory, possible during the lame duck session: incremental changes to the major entitlements plus scaling back tax preferences for the rich, and keeping all the rates in place for, say, a year.
For tonight’s debate
It is time to stop worrying about who gets blamed when things go wrong and start working on getting economic policy right.
The Washington Post’s hatchet job on Paul Ryan
When the Post’s staff publishes an obviously partisan hit piece with such weak intellectual support less than six weeks before Election Day, they destroy any credibility they have for objectivity or nonpartisan reporting. That’s a shame.