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President Barack Obama gestures during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, to urge Congress to pass a federal highway bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Obama halts controversial EPA regulation

Dina Cappiello, Julie Pace
President bows to GOP, business demands, eliminates proposed initiative to tighten smog standards

Obama’s dopey rope-a-dope strategy

Gene Lyons
The "adult in the room" takes a beating and just keeps sinking
President Barack Obama smiles at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, prior to signing the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal legislation that would allow gays to serve openly in the military. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci)

A bizarre breakout of budget showdown optimism

Andrew Leonard
An end to partisan brinkmanship? With Congress still in recess, unfounded rosy scenarios suddenly proliferate
NBC reporter Peter Alexander attempts to broadcast from the windswept Coney Island boardwalk in New York as Hurricane Irene became intensified Sunday, Aug. 28 2011 in Coney Island section of New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle (Craig Ruttle)

Why TV news is addicted to weather porn

Matt Zoller Seitz
When it comes to storms, TV news sticks to the script -- no matter how cynical, exploitative or cliched it may be
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks during the Iowa GOP/Fox News Debate at the CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Pool) (AP)

What’s the worst that could happen in a Ron Paul presidency?

Alex Pareene
Plenty
In this Aug. 4, 2011 photo, a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets tumbled Friday, Aug. 5, amid fears the U.S. may be heading back into recession and Europe's debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off follows the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Jin Lee) (AP)

Unemployment rate dips, economy adds 117K jobs

Christopher S. Rugaber
July jobs report comes in slightly better than expected, one day after worst stock market performance since 2008
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Destroying Democratic presidents

Joan Walsh
Right-wing attacks on President Obama are vicious, but the ugliness began with President Clinton

The next horrible budget showdown

Andrew Leonard
Debt ceiling hikes, government shutdown threats, tax cut drama: Come September, we'll do it all again
Tea Party protesters (Reuters)

The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism

Michael Lind
The goal, methods and passions of the Tea Party in the House are all characteristic of the radical Southern right
President Barack Obama turns to leave after speaking from White House briefing room, Sunday, July 31, 2011 in Washington, about a deal being reached to raise the debt limit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama didn’t “cave” on the debt ceiling

Matthew Dickinson
Yes, he got almost nothing out of this deal. But let's consider the harsh political realities he was up against
President Barack Obama speaks from White House briefing room, Sunday, July 31, 2011 in Washington, about a deal being reached to raise the debt limit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

President Obama’s surrender

Andrew Leonard
A bad weekend for the White House: The Tea Party wins, Democrats lose, and the carnage will be even worse next year

How to turn the GOP into a party of liberals

Jonathan Bernstein
A foolproof strategy that will fundamentally transform the debt ceiling debate -- and the entire Obama presidency
John Boehner and Harry Reid

Why is Wall Street so calm?

Andrew Leonard
Despite the best efforts of reckless legislators, markets are not panicking. Don't they understand doom is upon us?

Throwing the GOP a Medicare life-preserver

Steve Kornacki
Democrats had a promising 2012 strategy -- and it was already working. Then Obama started talking "grand bargain"
Former president George H. W. Bush and President Barack Obama

Obama, George H.W. Bush, and the ghosts of 1990

Steve Kornacki
The latest twist in the debt ceiling drama calls to mind one of the last major showdowns over deficits and taxes
Rush Limbaugh and Rep. Michele Bachmann

A party divorced from sanity

Gene Lyons
The great debt ceiling showdown would be a non-event if it weren't for something called the Tea Party
Captain America salutes reasonableness at the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010

The politics of Captain America

Bob Calhoun
From Jon Stewart's rally to Tea Party gatherings, people don the superhero's costume. Whose side would he be on?

Republicans listening to Erick Erickson, of course

Alex Pareene
The best way to understand Republicans' stubborn refusal to compromise at all on the debt ceiling
President Barack Obama

Are Republicans blowing up their own ’12 playbook?

Steve Kornacki
A bad economy should help the GOP unseat Obama next year -- but maybe not if they force a debt default
Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell: Truth teller

Andrew Leonard
The senator tells talk radio that ruining the economy will be bad for the GOP brand. He's right!
President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Monday, July 11, 2011, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Can Obama shame Republicans on the debt ceiling?

Joan Walsh
Floating a grand bargain with steep program cuts, knowing the GOP won't take it, is either craven or genius
George Michael and Hugh Grant

Celebs dance on the News of the World’s grave

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hugh Grant, George Michael and others share their own stories about the tabloid -- and enjoy its comeuppance
President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about debt ceiling negotiations, Tuesday, July 5, 2011, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

Standing up to hostage-takers

Joan Walsh
The president has already compromised too much over a debt ceiling that was raised seven times under President Bush
Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their supporters attended a vigil at the State Capitol steps in St. Paul, Minn on Thursday night June 30, 2011. Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez - Star Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

The roots of Minnesota’s staring contest

Steve Kornacki
A Democratic governor bets that voters are ready to turn on the Republicans they empowered last fall
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