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Economic media coverage has been heavily focused on advocating for deficit reduction, even as deficits decline and the federal government posts a surplus.

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Peggy Noonan is lucky, in a way, for the existence of Karl Rove and Dick Morris. The duo absorbed most of the mockery and heat for their irrationally optimistic predictions that Mitt Romney would trounce President Obama last November, allowing pundits like Noonan, who were no less sanguine about the impending Romney ascendance, to ease into 2013 relatively unscathed. The day before the election, you’ll recall, Noonan explained on her Wall Street Journal blog why Romney would win.

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Media figures have repeatedly forwarded the notion that the United States is currently facing a debt crisis. However, leaders of both parties agree there is no immediate crisis, and by focusing attention too heavily on deficit and debt reduction, the media distract from the more imminent problem of growth and jobs.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated the siren call that Republicans are not going to give up on repealing Obamacare. But in the same speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, McConnell admitted there is little plausibility to the idea, since Republicans have already lost . “When it came to Obamacare, we gave it everything we have, everything we have, and we just lost.” McConnell explained that won’t stop Republicans, in a speech where he assured his audience that the GOP is not stuck in the past: This law is a disaster

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Senate Republicans unveiled their plan to avert sequestration this week, and though they are still demanding that the looming budget cuts be offset totally by a different set of budget cuts, they are refusing to say what new budget cuts they prefer. Instead, they want to give President Obama the authority to choose which programs would face cuts as part of the $85 billion plan.

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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have each attacked President Obama for his recent comments pointing out their influence on the political process. But both Fox News and Limbaugh have indeed influenced Republican politicians’ actions in the past. In a recent interview with The New Republic , Obama said he believes that bipartisan legislation is more likely to pass if a Republican member of Congress isn’t “punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest.” Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Chris Stirewalt discussed Obama’s comments on Monday’s broadcast of America Live .

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Legislation aimed at reducing gun violence is “a limitation on a God-given right of man that has existed throughout the history of civil society,” according to an article published in the leading conservative opinion journal National Review. The author, David French, interprets the Christian Bible as granting everyone a right to self-defense. He suggests that this, if true, means that God’s will is that people have access to guns , as they are the means for self defense: In fact, Jesus’s disciples carried swords, and Jesus even said in some contexts the unarmed should arm themselves …What does all this mean?

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During an interview on Meet The Press on Sunday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) predicted that the sequester cuts are “going to happen” and made no concrete proposals for how to avoid the reductions. The tone represents a sharp rhetorical and policy shift for the onetime GOP vice presidential nominee, who warned during the 2012 presidential campaign that the cuts would “ devastate ” the country and undermine job growth

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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) distanced himself from his party’s effort to rig the election by appropriating electoral votes based on gerrymandered Congressional districts, telling MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Friday that he opposes the effort. Republican party leaders in Virginia , Pennsylvania , Wisconsin , and Michigan have proposed legislation that would change how most electoral votes are allocated, awarding more electoral votes to the winner of individual Congressional districts , rather than the winner of the state as a whole.

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