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Topic: Budget Showdown (page 9)

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on how the U.S. economy is affected by global unrest, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Associated Press

President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declares that he was "disappointed" in President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011, while meeting the the co-chairmen of his deficit reduction commission. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at podium, declares that he was "disappointed" in President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., Ryan, Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner Ohio, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in advance of his speech on the deficit and his plan for future spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with military officers after he spoke about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

The secret militarism of Obama's defense cuts

Speaker of the House, John Boehner

Rush Limbaugh and Barack Obama

The right-wingers who hated Obama's speech

President Barack Obama is seen in a television monitor as he outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan

President Obama outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University on Wednesday

Now that was a speech

FILE - In this April 8, 2011 photo, President Obama poses for photographers in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers. The Treasury Department reports on the federal budget deficit for March. In February, the government ran the largest-ever budget gap for a single month. The shortfall kept this year's annual deficit on pace to end as the biggest in U.S. history, $1.5 trillion. And that's not likely to change much, even after President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans struck a deal last week to cut $38.5 billion from this year's budget. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, during an event to launch the national initiative to support and honor America's service members and their families. Retired Gen Stanley McChrystal, the former top US general in Afghanistan who was relieved of his duty last year , has been chosen to help lead the new initiative. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Obama's "bad negotiating" is actually shrewd

Glenn Greenwald

Signing of the Medicare Bill July 30, 1965: Left to right, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Bess Truman

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during his visit to a UPS shipping facility in Landover, Md., Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Michael Winship

President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Let's wait for Obama's speech before we react

A sign hangs behind a podium for Justice David Prosser. Right: Supporters for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg cheer while watch election results in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, April 5, 2011.

What happens if the U.S. hits the debt ceiling?

Peter Finocchiaro

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington, after meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., regarding the budget and possible government shutdown Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

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