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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Tuesday that Democrat leaders were “stirring up the pot” by supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread throughout the country. (more)

Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a millionaire surtax this week because it provides a campaign trail alternative to President Barack Obama’s unpopular tax proposal. (more)

The millionaire tax being pushed by Senate Democrats this week would hit taxpayers in Democrat-dominated states almost twice as hard as those in Republican-dominated states, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys for Democratic candidates and committees trying to recover from an alleged embezzlement scheme appealed Friday to California’s political watchdog agency to relax financial reporting rules temporarily and waive some contribution limits. (more)

Despite predictions that Democrats’ upset loss in a heavily Jewish district of New York earlier this week forecasted a shift by Jewish Americans toward the GOP, a Gallup poll released Friday found that while President Obama’s approval among Jews has slowly declined, it has not done so in dramatic fashion. (more)

This summer has cemented it: Barack Obama is a lame duck. His administration is a failure. Democrats know it. And they only have months to act. (more)

Senior Democratic Party flacks are using Twitter to spin the credit-downgrade blame away from the White House and toward the GOP. (more)

A Politico reporter who often penned stories about Sarah Palin and other Republicans has quit journalism to work with the Democratic Party in Arizona, sources tell The Daily Caller. (more)

I was recently at a dinner held in honor of some minor foreign dignitary. The dinner concluded with the host exhorting each of the attendees (a bunch of economists) to give a short spiel on their view of “the future.” In such circumstances I realize that everyone else would rather go to the bathroom, visit their mistresses, find their dealers or at least go home and not hear someone’s tendentious summary of their latest research paper or pet theory, so I kept mine brief and appropriately dour: Greece is going under, China has a property bubble that dwarfs ours, current commodity prices are unsupportable and our debt is going to cause us grief well before our president is prepared to make any hard decisions — i.e., before November 2012. (more)

Between the debt ceiling showdown and the Michele Bachmann insurgency, America’s liberals seem more sickened than ever by the Tea Party. Taking advantage, their media and political elites are hard at work hardening Tea Partier stereotypes into fear symbols of economic narcissism and religious fanaticism. (more)

John F. Kennedy once said: “Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan.” He was referring to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. But he could just as easily have been describing our failed immigration policies. (more)

Here’s a question: Why is repealing the Bush tax cuts such a constant obsession for the Democratic Party? Especially the top rates for the most successful earners and small business entrepreneurs? (more)

The White House is pushing back against predictions that President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy will prompt many voters in the Jewish community to switch their vote to the GOP nominee in 2012. (more)

Although many Democratic congressional leaders have called on embattled New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, many are reluctant to say what the next course of action would be if he were to refuse to do so. (more)

As a liberal Democrat, I was happy with the results of the New York 26th Congressional District special election, in which Democrat Kathy Hochul defeated Republican Jane Corwin by emphasizing her opposition to Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget proposal and her Republican opponent’s support of that plan. (more)

While I certainly understand why we conservatives regard the current administration as a plague of biblical proportions, I don’t know why liberals continue to adore Mr. Obama. I mean, even if you were a Democrat who believed that anyone would be better than John McCain, in much the same way that many of us felt George W. Bush was preferable to Gore and Kerry, I can’t fathom why so many Democrats continue to hold Obama in such high regard. (more)

Environmentalists are howling over a policy “rider” in the just-passed spending bill that delists wolves from an endangered species list in some states. (more)

Once upon a time, GOP politicians wanted $100 billion in spending cuts. As Reason‘s Peter Suderman points out, “the GOP’s budget cut promises [went] from $100 billion to $61 billion and then resulted in a deal party leaders claimed cut $38 billion but really cut just $14 billion . . . The Congressional Budget Office now says the deal will reduce the budget deficit by just $353 million.” (more)

Those familiar with small boat operations know what happens when a diesel engine malfunctions and begins to suck in fuel and oxygen uncontrollably. It accelerates beyond all control. This runaway diesel has to be stopped. Unless it is stopped, it explodes. Boating safety courses teach us to take a life jacket, a towel, even a T-shirt, and jam it into the diesel’s air intake to avoid catastrophe. (more)

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller made the debate over the nation’s budget personal Tuesday afternoon, blasting House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan for proposing trillions in cuts to the federal government. (more)