“Jan Schakowsky” on The Daily Caller

Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois told The Daily Caller that the super committee on deficit reduction should recommend tax increases for wealthy individuals since they have “benefited” from “things that we have all paid for” like “roads and education.” (more)

Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky told The Daily Caller the public is “beginning to understand” that Republicans “simply want to do defeat’” the president and predicted that his approval rating will rise. (more)

CHICAGO (WLS) - A lot of reaction Wednesday morning to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s interview with Don Wade and Roma. (more)

There’s no question that the U.S. raid in Pakistan to take out Osama bin Laden was an important event for the lives of many Americans, but how much of a game changer was it? (more)

President Obama’s debt commission Friday received support from 11 of 18 members, falling short of the 14 votes needed for what would have been more of a symbolic passage than anything else. (more)

Summoning the most urgent and stern rhetoric possible, President Obama’s debt commission co-chairmen released their final report Wednesday morning upon a capital culture waiting eagerly to tear it to shreds. (more)

President Obama’s deficit commission must appear on the national stage Wednesday and announce something: it may be a proposal approved by a majority of its 18 members, but most money is on an irresolvable split that makes a final product impossible. (more)

With the Election Day “shellacking” now in the rearview mirror, pundit after pundit is pointing to Bill Clinton and his centrist actions post 1994 as the ideal model for jumpstarting an Obama presidency stuck in the mud.  When the comparison is made, the broader point is this: Obama needs to get to the center. (more)

A leading Democrat on President Obama’s deficit commission said that the proposal released by the panel’s co-chairs last week would receive support from no one on the 18-member body, and strongly signaled that the Dec. 1 deadline will pass without any agreement on a set of recommendations. (more)

Just kidding. When confronted by a cameraman from Founding Bloggers asking about the mandate’s constitutionality, Schakowsky was pulled away from the conversation by a staffer, but not without giving it the ol’ college try. (more)

In the wake of claims that Craigslist has been complicit in the sex trafficking of under-aged girls, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, and two human rights groups have called for Craigslist to excise the “adult” section from its site. (more)

Last month, Oliver Stone’s ”South of the Border” made its American debut. The documentary’s focus is Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who Stone believes has been cruelly demonized in Western media. (more)

One week from Tuesday, 18 men and women will begin an attempt to fix, in eight months, what is possibly the country’s greatest problem: the federal budget deficit, national debt and runaway entitlement spending. (more)

The drive to “repeal and replace” the newly enacted health care-reform law has already bumped into a bit of Beltway conventional wisdom: Entitlements are never repealed. Even if Republicans somehow summoned the political will to try, they would first need to win the presidency and a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate. (more)

And the lucky winners are: (more)

President Obama is calling more than two dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday as he steps up the pressure on his party to pass health-care reform. (more)

Republicans stopped a provision that establishes criminal penalties for CIA officers that use cruel, inhuman or degrading interrogation methods from making it into the Intelligence bill passed Friday — but the leading Republican on the House intelligence committee said that provision is hardly dead. (more)

“Never allow a crisis go to waste.” So said Rahm Emanuel in November 2008, describing how President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats intended to use the country’s economic crisis as a pretext for passing radical policies that Americans might otherwise reject. “What I mean by that,” Emanuel explained, “is that it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” (more)