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The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
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When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
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In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
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The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
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For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.
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As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
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Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
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The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.
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Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
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President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.
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If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
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In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.
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