The Obama Debt Monitor

New Tone: Paul Krugman Wonders If GOP Are ‘Manchurian Candidates’ Who Want To … – Mediaite

New Tone: Paul Krugman Wonders If GOP Are 'Manchurian Candidates' Who Want To ...
Mediaite
Krugman, a noted Keynesian, said that President Barack Obama had correctly embraced the counterintuitive notion that the way to avoid succumbing to the fate of debt-laden Greece is to run an unsustainably high national debt. In good times, as Krugman ...

John DiStaso’s Granite Status: Two more Democrats announce for state Senate seats – The Union Leader

John DiStaso's Granite Status: Two more Democrats announce for state Senate seats
The Union Leader
The Republicans returned fire with their own web video focusing on the national debt and the economy, “Empty Promises: Debt and Deficits.” It accuses Obama of breaking his pledge “to cut the deficit in half” during his first term in office, ...

Obama is Doing Something Right: Taxes, Deficits and Spending – Politic365

Obama is Doing Something Right: Taxes, Deficits and Spending
Politic365
While the national debt has risen under President Obama, the bulk of the debt is the result of policies initiated under the previous George W. Bush administration. In essence, President Bush did the old dine and dash, leaving the next President (or ...

Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XVIII – msnbc.com (blog)

Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XVIII
msnbc.com (blog)
It's not. 3. Romney also argued that Obama has "added almost as much debt as all the prior presidents combined." 4. Romney insisted that the national debt is responsible for "the most tepid recovery in modern history." That's ridiculously false.

Romney’s ‘Day One’: What do we know about his plan? – msnbc.com

Romney's 'Day One': What do we know about his plan?
msnbc.com
Begin dismantling and replacing President Obama's health care law. In short, Romney's message is about jobs, taxes, energy and health care. So what do we know about the specifics of Romney's three-point plan? Republicans, including Romney, have vocally ...

Romney’s ‘Day One’: What do we know about his plan? – msnbc.com (blog)

Romney's 'Day One': What do we know about his plan?
msnbc.com (blog)
Begin dismantling and replacing President Obama's health care law. In short, Romney's message is about jobs, taxes, energy and health care. So what do we know about the specifics of Romney's three-point plan? Republicans, including Romney, have vocally ...

Romney’s ‘Day One’: What do we know about his plan? – msnbc.com (blog)

Romney's 'Day One': What do we know about his plan?
msnbc.com (blog)
Begin dismantling and replacing President Obama's health care law. In short, Romney's message is about jobs, taxes, energy and health care. So what do we know about the specifics of Romney's three-point plan? Republicans, including Romney, have vocally ...

Coming attractions: Debt-Limit Summer Smackdown II – Los Angeles Daily News

Coming attractions: Debt-Limit Summer Smackdown II
Los Angeles Daily News
This is an annual event in which honchos from all political persuasions get together and agree that the national debt is too big. We are getting into election season, people. We are going to be hearing a lot about the national debt. (Which is very big.

WSJ Erases Romney’s History Of Invoking Rev. Wright To Attack Obama – Media Matters for America (blog)

WSJ Erases Romney's History Of Invoking Rev. Wright To Attack Obama
Media Matters for America (blog)
... total of the national debt. The tenor of the proposed ad [linking President Obama to Reverend Wright] was far different than that adopted so far by Mr. Romney and many other GOP-leaning groups, which have chosen not to attack Mr. Obama personally.

What Will President Obama Say? – New York Times (blog)

What Will President Obama Say?
New York Times (blog)
But they outline a potent argument against Mr. Obama that many Americans seem to find convincing. It goes like this: The President went on a spending spree that made the downturn much worse. Unemployment is still high. The national debt and the deficit ...