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slate.com - 30 days ago
Much of the current deficit debate is for the birds.
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A once-endangered species is staging a robust comeback: the deficit hawk. Hunted nearly to death during the Bush years, many varieties not seen in Washington in a decade are now perching on branches and dropping their wisdom. Look, there's the puff-chested congressional peacock hawk, frequently seen strutting about Sunday-morning-TV-show sets complaining about pork while emitting loud honks on the receipt of stimulus funds. The furrowed-brow warbler hawk (natural habitat: the op-ed pages) loathes ...
washingtonexaminer.com - 22 days ago
The coming campaign: Obama will sell himself as deficit hawk. Really.
— washingtonexaminer.com — By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 11/13/09 11:15 AM EST The word went out among Washington politicos... yesterday: Barack Obama is about to become very, very tough on federal spending. I was talking to a Democratic strategist yesterday (our ... (more) The coming campaign: Obama will sell himself as deficit ...

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thenation.com - 10/30/2009
Deficit Hawk Hysteria
— thenation.com — The deficit hawks are flapping their wings and making a terrible squawk about the government's gusher of... red ink. Good grief, a federal deficit of $1.4 trillion! What will become of us? The gloom chorus includes GOP heavies and right-wing frothers, ... (more) Deficit Hawk Hysteria

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Much of the current deficit debate is for the birds.
Slate Magazine — ... social injustice but loves it when the spending is used to finance military actions abroad. The blue-bellied partisan hawk nests in think tanks; it goes mute when members of its own party run the show but squawks loudly when opponents run up debt. On Nov. 3, birders sighted the rare skinny parrot hawk, which repeats back calls about fiscal probity. Said President Barack Obama on that date: "The government is going to have to get serious about reducing our debt levels." [more ...] ...

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