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Posts tagged as “national debt”

Trillion-Dollar Coin Not Happening, Say Treasury, White House

Rep. Kristi Noem's latest crusade becomes even more imaginary. Last week she issued a bold call to Stop the Coin, the trillion-dollar platinum coin by which the U.S Treasury could harmlessly circumvent any effort by Rep. Noem and her House…

Republicans Get Serious, Abandon Norquist Pledge

Aside from the comfort of Barack Obama's intelligent and democratic leadership of the free world for four more years, a great benefit of his re-election may be the demise of Grover Norquist. Norquist, whose anarcho-capitalist goal is to shrink and…

Fiscal Conservative Noem Carries More Debt than Leftist Blogger

Denise Ross posts Rep. Kristi Noem's asset disclosure and finds that our fiscally conservative Congresswoman is carrying over $20,000 in credit card debt. Uff da: I'll bet the Noem family is enjoying those nice consumer credit card protections the Democrats…

S&P Downgrades US to AA+, Michele Bachmann to F

If you take Standard & Poor's' (Standard & Poor's's? and how do you form that possessive?) downgrade of the United States' (ah, apostrophes!) credit rating seriously, if you see it as reason to vote out President Barack Obama or any…

Update: Noem Not a Major Contender for Debt Super Committee

O.K. let's get serious: Congresswoman Kristi Noem is not going to get a seat on the debt super committee. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just named fellow Democrats Max Baucus, John Kerry, and Patty Murray to the Debt Politburo. Their…