Debt

The past week has done an enormous amount to illuminate the contours of the struggle for fiscal sanity in America. It is increasingly clear that one party is committed to denying the reality of the challenges we face and wants instead to bury its …

Washington (CNN) - In a highly visible setback for fiscal Conservatives in the House, many Republicans joined the majority in rejecting an additional $22 billion in Budget cuts after heated interparty debate. The Republicans' free-wheeling and op…

WEST Des Moines, Iowa - A group of Republican Activists was sorting out the field of prospective 2012 Presidential Candidates on a cold night here recently when talk turned to Sarah Palin. In a state whose caucuses will kick off the nomination c…

In February, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jacob Lew told us in The New York Times that "The Easy Cuts Are Behind Us." Lew focused in that op-ed on the tough spending reductions that President Barrack Obama planned to tackle in …

The Democratic National Committee says it has raised $7.2 million in January but has more than twice that amount in Debt. In Campaign Finance reports filed Friday, the Democrats' central committee said it has $9.1 million in the bank and $16.8 mil…

Beware the RINOs in our Midst. The Republicans’ free-wheeling and open approach to debate over a resolution to fund the government offered insight into disagreements within the party that played out on the House floor Friday. The head of the…

Congress is locked in an emotional stalemate over a Continuing Resolution that would fund the government past March 4. Rabble-rousing Republican members of the House are attempting to advance the Tea Party agenda with a continuing resolution wit…

Speaker John Boehner Friday accused President Barack Obama and his political apparatus for “inciting” Protests in Wisconsin’s captal, saying that the president is trying to “demagogue reform-minded governors.” Boehner…