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The good news for progressives, including Madisons Democratic congressman, Mark Pocan, is that the budget proposal authored by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis, has almost no chance of becoming law anytime soon.

Although the Ryan budget narrowly passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last week, it does not have the support necessary to get through the Democratic Senate and President Barack Obama would not sign it even if it did.

The bad news for progressives is that their alternative budget proposal has about the same chance of seeing the president's desk.

But the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made up of 67 liberal Democrats and one independent (Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont), is promoting its vision for American economic recovery and deficit reduction nonetheless.

The differences between Ryans budget and the progressive alternative display many of the age-old left-right debates over what the government should prioritize. Ryan seeks to balance the budget by reducing spending on entitlements and other social programs, while progressives aim to cut defense spending and raise revenue by increasing taxes on capital gains and incomes above $250,000.

The two proposals also reflect fundamentally different beliefs about how to generate economic growth.

Ryan believes that trimming spending on social programs and cutting taxes on the American investment class will lead to heightened economic activity, which will generate greater tax revenue.

He argues in supply-side fashion that lowering tax rates and plugging loopholes will produce more income, not less, conservative economist and columnist Larry Kudlow noted approvingly in 2012.

In contrast, progressives believe that New Deal-style spending on programs that deliver dollars directly to low and middle-income Americans food stamps, hiring more teachers is a more effective way to jump-start the economy and will ultimately lead to a balanced budget down the road.

Laura Dresser, an economist at the liberal Center on Wisconsin Strategy, explained the progressive approach: When youre in a down cycle and there is a lack of jobs, you need demand in the system and the only place that can come from is the government.

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Comparing Paul Ryan's budget to the proposal from Mark Pocan's progressive caucus

The congresses of the All Progressives Congress in four local governments of the Edo-North Senatorial District have been cancelled due to the inability of party members to reach a consensus agreement.

The local governments are Akoko-Edo, Etsako-West, Etsako-Central and Owan-West.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who monitored the exercise, reports that the congresses were held in Owan-East and Etsako-East local governments.

The Chairman of Owan-West Local Government, Mr. Godwin Aigbodion, told NAN that the congresses were cancelled because party members disagreed on adopting consensus candidates for the positions of Chairman and Secretary.

The local government congress has been cancelled as party members in the local government area could not reach a consensus agreement on the position of local government chairman of the party.

I cannot say when the congress would hold, but members need to go and harmonise before the congress will take place, he said.

However, in the Owan-East local government, a consensus was agreed as names of the elected officers were harmonised and affirmed through the raising of hands by the delegates.

The Chairman of Owan-East, Mr Jimoh Ijegbai, said that the council decided to build on the consensus agreement to elect party officials.

We decided to build on the consensus agreement and as you witnessed yourself, the only position that was contested for is the position of youth leader and an election was conducted.

The 275 delegates that came from the 11 wards voted at the congress; that is the beauty of democracy.

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APC cancels congresses in four Edo councils

David Graham | Ralph Rodighiero | 24th District West Virginia House of Delegates | Liberals ACA Guns
David Graham and Ralph Rodighiero are both running for the 24th District West Virginia House of Delegates. This video covers some of what has been found with...

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George Will: Liberals Have #39;Racism Tourette #39;s #39;
In response to a viewer question (it was really more of a statement) accusing President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of "race baiting," cons...

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Ever since ObamaCare supposedly hit the arbitrary target of 7 million sign-ups by March 31, its supporters have been taking the most premature victory lap since conservative proponents of the Iraq War (like me) crowed about the results of the three elections inside Iraq in 2005 and how they demonstrated the country was on the verge of a historic peace.

Its all over but the shouting: ObamaCare is working, said Eugene Robinson in Tuesdays Washington Post. All the naysaying in the world cant drown out mounting evidence that the Affordable Care Act, President Obamas signature domestic achievement, is a real success.

Those words summarize the relief of many liberals who plunged into despair last fall when the HealthCare.gov site proved to be a $600 million disaster. So relieved was Ezra Klein of Vox.com that he blithely claimed the sudden resignation last Friday of Kathleen Sebelius, the top administration official in charge of the ObamaCare rollout, was actually a mark of the policys great success.

It takes a very special pair of rose-colored glasses to ignore the simple reality that officials almost never resign when the policy theyve been working to implement has triumphed. But rose-colored glasses are the only ones ObamaCare fans are allowed to buy from Warby Parker these days.

Yes, its true that six months after that catastrophe, people can actually sign up for ObamaCare. Its also likely true that the programs worst possible fate in which it literally collapses on its own because its overall insurance pool holds far more sick people than healthy people has been avoided.

But the idea that, by meeting their obligations under the law, those 7 million signers-up have thereby indicated their support for ObamaCare, or their approval of it, or have ensured its success, is simply delusional.

In the first place, we dont yet know how many people who didnt have insurance before now do which was the entire point of this exercise. But its not a lot. According to an analysis by Avik Roy of Forbes, the number might be as low as 1.4 million.

Thats 1.4 million out of an overall uninsured population of 31 million to 47 million.

The other 6 million have gone into the program because circumstances compelled them to as in, they already had insurance until it got canceled due to the coming of ObamaCare.

Second, even by the administrations own calculations, as many as 1.5 million of the sign-ups havent paid their premiums yet. Standard accounting principles say such people shouldnt be considered covered by the law.

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Liberals in rose-colored glasses consider ObamaCare a victory