Paul Ryan Heads For The Exit

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Paul Ryan’s departure next year confirms the dimming prospects for serious conservative policymakers in Washington.
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Rome Didn’t Fall In A Day

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Republicans were repelled in their first assault on Obamacare, but will the law withstand a prolonged legislative siege?
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Ethics charges are readily deployed on Capitol Hill as political weapons, with little change in sight for now.
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Democrats’ nightmare scenario is one in which Paul Ryan unites the GOP as its nominee for president.
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If politics is the art of the possible, then political fundraising is the art of extracting every possible dollar.
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In the biggest presidential races, how big a factor is the selection of a vice presidential candidate?
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Before we toss the president’s budget in the trash, it is worth giving it a look. At least he’s being honest about what he wants.
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The “supercommittee” is just for show. Expect a lot of talk this fall, but no real action until 2012 or 2013.
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Headlines from the debt debate will fade, but what we learned will linger. The financial world is riskier than we realized.
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Gold, as jewelers are always eager to remind us, lasts forever. So will discussions of the gold standard. Until the …
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