From the reaction of some conservatives, you’d think Speaker John Boehner had dug up and defiled the body of Ronald Reagan.  What exactly did Boehner do to earn such condemnation? His House passed Cut, Cap and Balance, which made modest cuts to spending in 2012, installed caps on spending going forward, required a revisit of the debt limit debate after

The smoke-and-mirrors attempt by Pres. Barack Obama to make it seem as though all 43 presidents before him – including Pres. Ronald Reagan – are crawling from their graves to stand in his corner in the debt ceiling debate would be great satire if it were not actually happening. Like clipping letters from magazines to paste together a ransom note,

With the August 2 deadline less than a week away before the federal government reaches its debt limit, state budget officials across the country are preparing for the potential impact on state budgets depending on what Congress and the President agree (or don’t agree) to. According to at least one state budget director, there will be “no happy endings” for

With the drama over raising the debt limit in Washington DC reaching its final act this week, things are actually looking pretty good for Republicans. Despite the President’s bluster and demagogy in speeches and press conferences, the Republicans in the House have actually submitted and passed plans to deal with the debt crisis; the Democrats are too afraid of the