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What happened yesterday that created the public disruption in talks between President Obama and John Boehner on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction? Pretty clearly, this was the only substantive impact of the Gang of Six’s intrusion on the issue. Their proposal has turned out to be vaporware — it doesn’t actually address the debt ceiling, for one thing, and they don’t have an actual plan, either, not one that commits to language that can be scored. However, it provided enough of a distraction to allow Obama to shift the goalposts on revenue halfway down the field, as Jim Pethokoukis...

The media frenzy over Republican Senators and Barack Obama making nice over the debt ceiling crisis exposes for all Americans to see the extent to which both parties are aligned with Wall Street interests, and against the interests of Main Street and small business. The subject of this latest bipartisan love fest is the Gang of Six plan. Americans want reform. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives was swept into office by promising reform. The Gang of Six Solution is the antithesis of reform. Supposedly it offers the "balanced approach" of which Obama rambles on about endlessly. But...

The incredibly bad timing of the incredibly lame "Gang of Six" plan-that-isn't-really-a-plan took the spotlight off of the president's cuts-that-aren't-really-cuts and launched another round of Manhattan-Beltway media elite stories trying to generate momentum for a massive tax hike with no spending reductions in 2012. What is really astonishing is that any GOP senator urges support for a plan that isn't written down and presented to the public for weeks of debate. Did they learn nothing from Obamacare? Do they really believe this is what voters demanded last fall? I spoke with Senator Pat Toomey about the latest developments on today's...

GOP members on Cut, Cap, and Balance: From Earlier Site page article excerpt: White House talks with Congressional leaders resumed as President Obama’s hopes for a deficit reduction deal to coincide with an increase to the debt ceiling resurfaced. President Obama called Congressional leaders to the White House in separate meetings to discuss the “Gang of Six” proposal. VIDEO