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The Zombie Rises: The Return of Simpson-Bowles

Take a good look at Europe -- bloody riots in Athens and Madrid, rising unemployment, spreading poverty and suicide, and a deepening recession -- because the current American elite consensus bizarrely wants to drive America down that same path.

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Dave Johnson: Simpson-Bowles Zombie Returns

President Obama and many Democrats spent much of 2011 talking about deficits instead of doing something about jobs.

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Food Stamp Cuts Eyed By House GOP To Forestall Defense Cutbacks

Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together legislation to trim $261 billion from the federal budget over the next decade, hoping to forestall major Pentagon cutbacks.

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President Obama Told By Kent Conrad Not To Publicly Support Bowles-Simpson

Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said on Sunday that he urged President Obama not to publicly support a much-touted bipartisan debt-reduction plan out of fear that it would produce reflexive Republican opposition.

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05/24/12 Senate finally passes a budget approves bill striking... Source: Michelle Malkin The Senate on Wednesday quickly approved legislation that would remove the word "lunatic" everywhere it appears in the federal code.
05/23/12 Dakota Rising Source: Roll Call - Washington DC Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) drew a crowd Tuesday afternoon while carrying Dakota, his loyal canine companion, down the escalator toward the Capitol subway.
05/22/12 GOP: Senate Dems breaking law on spending limits Source: The Weekly Standard - Washington DC Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., has moved to implement the budget proposed by President Obama, which failed to receive a single vote in Congress and violates the current law on spending limits, according to Senate Republicans.
05/21/12 âSenator Conrad's tenure as budget chairman is an... Source: Say Anything "America needs Conrad to stay on as Budget Committee chairma[n]," wrote Grand Forks Herald opinion editor Tom Dennis in 2010.
05/21/12 Conrad: Worst Budget Chair in Senate History Source: KNUS 710 - Denver CO "By the way, Harry Reid crushed the Democratic budget chairman, a good man, a fiscal hawk. And there are good, fiscal hawks â Kent Conrad â there are Democrats acting so responsibly."

Background on kent conrad

Gaylord Kent Conrad (born March 12, 1948) is the senior United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party.

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