Rating Agencies Warn Fed Risks Downgrade Without Deficit Plan

Source: NewsMax

Rating agencies say they need to be convinced that lawmakers have a real plan in the works to reduce the growing debt if the nation is to avert future downgrades, according to a report by The Hill. “If Congress doesn’t ...
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Obama Unleashes Joe Biden

Source: Real Clear Politics

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Dave Betras is known in “The Valley” for his colorful language and his political antics and drama. Last Wednesday, however, when Vice President Joe Biden visited a local industrial park, Betras was all... more ›› Ther ...
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Getaway Day Edition - OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS ROCKY DEBUT - Romney regrets 'I like to be able to fire people' - Reviewer: Maraniss book paints sympathetic Obama portrait

Source: The Politico

THE NARRATIVE – OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS ROUGH THREE WEEKS -- Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei : “Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger — the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private. So nothing inspires more angst than w ...
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Video: Sunday: Gibbs, Gillespie, Lugar

Source: CBS News

Bob Schieffer previews the May 27th edition of "Face the Nation" with Robert Gibbs, Ed Gillespie, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and a panel of authors. Coburn: U.S. "should see another downgrade" Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says "You ca ...
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9 best Alan Simpson quotes

Source: The Politico

Former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles commission on the debt and deficit, made news Wednesday when POLITICO obtained a scathing letter he wrote to the California Alliance for Retired Americans, referrin ...
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Bob Schieffer and Honky Tonk Confidential booked for Smithsonian on Flag Day

Source: The Washington Post

When journalist Bob Schieffer isn’t wearing his newsman suits, he dons blue jeans and joins the award-winning band Honky Tonk Confidential. Bob Schieffer and Honky Tonk Confidential hogged the spotlight at Hill Country. (Sylvia Lin - ...
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Sen. Coburn: "No Doubt" U.S. Credit Rating Will Get Another Downgrade

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Coburn: U.S. "going to get another downgrade"

Source: CBS News

CBS News-- As Washington prepares for yet another battle over the growing national debt and an increase of the debt ceiling, Senator Tom Coburn says there's no doubt that the worst is going to happen again. "We're going to get another downgrade. ...
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Video: Coburn: U.S. "should see another downgrade"

Source: CBS News

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says "You can have a great legal case for suing the rating agencies for not downgrading us again because we have not demonstrated the political will to solve the problems." Coburn: No ...
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