The proposals will include cuts to Medicare and Social Security and tax increases... which doesn't change what the president was offering Republicans last fall — but it does mean pundits will declare Obama is offering a serious budget for serious times, DOA or not.
Now that the sequester has settled in, we've learned that Republicans do not feel much urgency to protect defense spending. After President Obama's dinner diplomacy failed to produce a grand bargain, it doesn't look like they were after party invitations. And, now, we're learning that Republicans aren't all that enthusiastic about entitlement reform, either.
Ryan's 91-page budget is not a budget document; it is a political baseline. From that standpoint, it's already a success. But here's what it actually looks like.
As Ryan finishes up the House Republican budget before he presents it on Wednesday, he's confronting a last-minute problem on Medicare.
Paul Ryan promises the sequester will not be the last fiscal crisis this year, but it didn't have to be this way.
Politicians are constantly reminding us about the debt we are leaving for children, but it seems that our children aren't really bothered — since they mistakenly think they'll be getting all our cash as well.
As President Obama ran for and won the 2008 election, more Americans started naming their baby boys "Barack," but as time has gone on, fewer people want to name their kid after the president.
With a headline-grabber that should be familiar to us all by now, Social Security trustees reported Monday that the program's trust fund will be totally depleted by 2033, three years earlier than they previously thought.
It has become one of the great paradoxes of American life that those who depend the most on government assistance are also the ones most likely to call for reduced government spending.
Newt Gingrich has pitched himself as an ideas man, and as his presidential campaign accelerates, so does the rate of the generation of his ideas.
The Washington Post ran a big takeout Sunday on Social Security, its longterm solvency, and budget policy. Dean Baker, Paul Krugman, et al, went bananas.
Puppy pictures notwithstanding, Perry's crowd of critics is growing
A bad omen for Obama, a bad candidate, and "the jews" are all thrown around
Cartoonist Lisa Benson gives her take on Social Security's 'terrible odds'
Scaring seniors is reckless and wrong, unless you're struggling in the polls
His rivals see his beliefs on the program as a big vulnerability
Attacking Rick Perry for his comments on Social Security might not help Romney
Opposition researchers have easy pickings from his recent book
Pundits across the political spectrum find themselves in new territory on the issue
The money went to recipients who were not entitled or were overpaid
The Oklahoma Senator questions 'adult baby' Stanley Thornton's Social Security benefits
Republican walks out of budget talks over demands for entitlement reforms
On the problem with Libya, the importance of lightbulbs, and the centrality of teachers
On underestimating Steve Jobs, oversimplifying Libya, and a fix for Social Security
Alan Simpson, Obama's deficit commission co-chairman, opines on kids these days
On fashion and fascism, Social Security as welfare, and the benefits of monarchy
House speaker says Republicans are ready to trim popular entitlement programs
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