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Topic: Federal Deficit (page 6)

Erskine Bowles, Sen. Alan Simpson and Joe Scarborough

Can civility save the debt panel report?

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Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission.

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairman of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission (with Erskine Bowles in back), take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.

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President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

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Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles

Monday link dump

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, right, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, swap positions at the microphones to answer questions on the sweeping GOP victory in the 2010 midterm elections, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

David Stockman

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Evan Bayh

Bayh on tax cuts for rich: "Fairness" can wait

Thursday link dump

Tuesday link dump

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul responds to a question during a candidate forum in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke) (AP)

Rand Paul doesn't understand how the Senate works

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In this photo taken May 7, 2010, Budget Director Peter Orszag stands by as President Barack Obama makes a statement on monthly jobs numbers outside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. A Democratic official tells The Associated Press that President Barack Obama's top budget official, Peter Orszag, plans to step down later this year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Carolyn Kaster)

Everyone wrong on Orszag, Obama's tax cut plans

FILE - In this file photograph taken June 2, 2010, shoppers Joselin Pena, left, and her niece Ingrid Romero, center, both of Boston, load packages into their car after shopping at a Target location, in Boston. A monthly consumer survey shows that Americans' confidence in the economy eroded further in July amid job worries. The reading raises concern about the economic recovery and the back-to-school shopping season.(AP Photo/Steven Senne, file) (Steven Senne)

Poll: No one cares about the deficit

Alexis de Toqueville, author of "Democracy in America"

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Jeannine Aversa

Tuesday link dump

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)

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