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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse set to introduce ‘Buffett Rule’ tax bill

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Larry Downing/Reuters) Senate Democrats are talking about a new strategy for tax reform that highlights the "Buffett Rule," the proposal stemming from billionaire Warren Buffett's campaign to pay a higher tax rate than his se...

Senate Democrats to push new strategy for tax reform

Sen. Chuck Schumer (Jason Reed/Reuters) Senate Democrats intend to push a new strategy of tax reform based on the proposals outlined in President Obama's State of the Union. Rather than using the basic foundation of the 1986 tax reform with some twea...

Republicans find plenty to be outraged about in Obama’s State of the Union

The Fortress of No If you held any small glimmer of hope that the president could figure out a way to work with Congress, let's just kill that off right now. The only thing that's required for Republicans to be against something is for Obama to be fo...

More SOTU responses: Liveblog #3

Now Herman Cain is speaking, because the Tea Party is so important they deserve an entirely separate response. But they're not important enough to rate someone better than Herman Cain. 7:53 PM PT: The coordinated GOP response seems to be that America ...

Republican SOTU response: Liveblog #2

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (Huffington Post) Livebloggin' continues. God help us all. 7:35 PM PT: The first item on Daniels' list: tax cuts for corporations. Second thing: cut assistance to poor people. Wow, he's just full of new ideas. 7:36 PM PT:...

Republican response to the State of the Union: liveblog #1

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (Huffington Post) Tonight's Republican response to the State of the Union will be given by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, seen above as a young college-bound lad soon to be more interested in smoking massive amounts of pot tha...

What the president did and didn’t say about Social Security

After weeks of hearing that President Obama might use his State of the Union address to begin a campaign to cut Social Security, what the president said was anti-climactic. He did not embrace the ideas outlined by members of his Catfood Commission. He did not announce cuts. And while some may take comfort in their...

Boehner lies about American ‘exceptionalism’ in Obama’s SOTU

Ben Smith at Politico flags this bit of Republican dissembling from John Boehner (R-OH) during an appearance on CNN last night, where he complained about what the President didn't say in his State of the Union address:

BOEHNER: Well, they -- they've refused to talk about America exceptionalism. We are different than...

State of the Union round-up

Some State of the Union news from around the web ...

  • Early numbers showed President Obama's speech getting high marks with the viewing public -- and many of the pundits agreed.
  • Political Correction provides a fact-check on both the official Republican response from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the calamity-ridden fail...

Republican response to State of the Union

And now, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will give the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech (not to be mistaken for Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) later post-rebuttal-rebuttal).

You can see Ryan's remarks as prepared for delivery here.

And here are just a few of the specific plans and...

Bachmann’s CNN-sponsored response to the response to the State of the Union

And now the moment you've all been waiting for ... CNN presents Rep. Michele Bachmann giving the Republican response to the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech.

Have at it.

Update by Jed: Okay, Bachmann forgot to put the teleprompter in front of the camera. She's staring off...

2011 State of the Union

Update: In terms of words, the first 10% or so of the speech is focused on the need for cooperation -- with divided control of Congress, President Obama says, we can't get anything done without working together. The next 60% or so is focused on job growth and creation, and the government's role...

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