Word: argumentive
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...cases that have followed, as the number of states whose courts have demanded equal marriage rights for gays has grown. But those same cases have also helped fuel opponents, who say gay marriage is being foisted upon the U.S. by out-of-touch judges. In order to counter that argument, Bonauto and other gay-marriage activists in Maine who began organizing to press for gay marriage there decided to avoid taking the issue to court. Instead, they set about electing lawmakers who were friendly to their cause two years ago, and this year successfully convinced the legislature to become...
...Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for the New York Times - and a steadfast Obama cheerleader - wrote a column ripping Beijing for its "outrageous" currency policy. He was followed late last week by Martin Feldstein, a former chief economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, who made a similar argument in the pages of the Financial Times. Both noted that the RMB-dollar peg is badly hurting economies in Europe and East Asia and that if Obama raises this issue in Beijing (as he surely will), he'll have tacit backing from a lot of precincts...
...right here? Well, first, the Republican argument that the stimulus is a bust because jobs have been lost fails a basic logic test. After last fall's global financial shock, the job market was going to be thrown for a loss no matter what. The issue is whether the number of job losses is greater or lesser than it would have been in the absence of the stimulus. "You can't answer these questions without a compared-to-what," says Jared Bernstein, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the stimulus. "We can have good arguments about...
...compelling argument, though one he has yet to sell to his moderate colleagues and, crucially, to the Obama Administration. Schumer tried to make his case for a public option at a White House meeting on Oct. 22. But by all accounts, Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, remained unconvinced, preferring to salvage the support of Snowe, who favors a public plan built around a trigger - meaning if competition is found sufficiently lacking in a state, a public plan might be created for that locality...
...threatened military action if Iran's nuclear program is not stopped, has been increasingly critical of the Vienna deal for the very reasons that Tehran welcomes it. "[The agreement] means that [the U.S., Russia and France] recognize that Iran is enriching uranium and that helps [Iran] with their argument that they are enriching uranium for peaceful purposes," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday. "It is important to insist on an end to enrichment in Iran...