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...least when it comes to a hard carbon cap. Although Obama called for comprehensive climate and energy legislation in his recent State of the Union address, there was one term he did not use: carbon cap. And in its proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, released on Monday, the White House did not name a specific dollar figure for revenue it expects from cap and trade. Last year's budget projected $79 billion in revenue from the auction of carbon credits...
...White Ribbon:” Just kidding. With or without “Avatar,” no one really would really care about Michael Haneke’s allegorical drama, although it might well be the best film of the year. Another one to watch for in February is “A Prophet,” Haneke’s equally dreary, equally subtitled competition for critically-anointed, unseen European film of the year...
...that time, House Republican leaders were facing a newly elected Democratic President with approval ratings in the 70s and an economy in the tank. After two bruising election cycles in which the GOP lost the White House and both the House and Senate, pundits were predicting they might be at the dawn of another 40-year stint in the minority. President Obama was publicly reaching out to Republicans on the massive stimulus bill, but something made House minority leader John Boehner and No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor pause at the idea of working hand in hand with Obama...
...They traveled to the White House on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, to present Obama with their ideas for the stimulus bill. They weren't greatly encouraged, though, when Obama told them at that meeting in the Roosevelt Room that "elections have consequences, and I won." Over the weekend, the GOP leadership met, and by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on the legislation late Sunday, they were sure that nothing they had proposed was included in the measure...
...Still, there's only so much you can oppose before you become part of the problem, says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. And the White House is counting on that fact to try to make the Republicans' refusal to even consider supporting some moderate proposals on tax cuts and deficit commissions a liability in the fall. Last week, a senior Administration official said, "We will not allow the next 10 months to become a referendum on Barack Obama...