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President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for 2011 drew fire from lawmakers who say the plan does not seek to make a deep-enough dent in the soaring U.S. deficit, expected to hit a record $1.56 trillion this year. Obama blamed the shortfall in part on the "decade of profligacy" under his predecessor, including two wars and tax cuts for the wealthy. Propping up the fragile economy, he added, remains a top White House priority--and it's not cheap. While the proposed budget includes a three-year freeze on discretionary spending and other deficit-reduction measures, it also calls...
BUZZ ALDRIN, one of the original Apollo 11 astronauts, supporting the Obama Administration's plan to scrap NASA's Constellation program--intended to put American explorers back on the moon--in favor of smaller projects...
...there were just six or eight Republican senators--a few more Judd Greggs and Lindsey Grahams--ready to meet Obama somewhere in the middle ... I believe that in the wake of the Massachusetts wake-up call the president would indeed meet them in that middle ground to forge not just incremental compromises, but substantial ones ... But so far, the Republicans are having a good year politically by just being the Party...
...unemployment were at 5%, President Obama would be doing fine. If the Christmas bomber's pants had exploded successfully, he'd be in far worse shape. Obama's progressive base thinks his problems stem from not being ambitious enough. Conservatives argue the opposite ... But one thing is clear: People think Obama took his eye off the ball...
...Rights Amendment in every one of its party platforms from 1940 through '76. From 1970 to '74, Richard Nixon signed more environmental legislation than any other President in U.S. history. In '74, Nixon advanced a proposal for universal health coverage - decades before those offered by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...