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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Politics:  Then & Now: The Changing Rhetoric in the Debt-Limit Debate

How politicized is the vote over the debt ceiling?

The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib may have captured it most succinctly, when he signaled that, since 2002, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) voted for each debt limit increase asked for by President Bush and against each request from President Obama.

Grassley's long-time Iowa colleague, Democrat Tom Harkin? The exact opposite.

For more, see Then & Now: The Changing Rhetoric in the Debt-Limit Debate by Bernie Becker, June 11, 2011 at On The Money.

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