Consensual
With the two sides both calling for big discretionary cuts, they should consent to phase them in gradually. And they must extend the debt limit through 2012. The country has more pressing problems to deal with. (NYT editorial, 7/27/2011)
No actually it does not. This is the biggest problem. Like Obama, the Times wants this pesky little debt ceiling problem to go away so that liberals can get on with their task of "fundamentally transforming" the country (their words, not ours.)
Fake ID
In states across the country, Republican legislatures are pushing through laws that make it more difficult for Americans to vote. The most popular include new laws requiring voters to bring official identification to the polls. Estimates suggest that more than 1 in 10 Americans lack an eligible form of ID, and thus would be turned away at their polling location. Most are minorities and young people, the most loyal constituencies of the Democratic Party. (Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, 7/27/2011)
You have to produce a valid ID to buy beer, to get on an airplane, to enter an office building in most major cities, to get a loan, etc. But vanden Heuvel does not believe that this requirement should extend to voting.
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