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Opinion: Feb. 16, 2011 buzz: Talking ‘birther blather’ and essential foreign aid

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Readers are still buzzing around The tongue-tied speaker, about House Speaker John A. Boehner’s insult to the president, making it the most viewed Opinion piece for a second day in a row. In Wednesday’s Opinion pages, Boehner and the ‘birther’ blather continue to draw attention via Tim Rutten’s Op-Ed column, in which he discusses “those deranged Americans who continue to insist that President Obama is neither a U.S. citizen nor a Christian.” The reader reaction is feisty.

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President Obama hasn’t received too many thumbs-up for his 2012 budget, which comes off as more of a jumping-off point rather than a determined mission. ‘White House officials have said that the budget is just a down payment on more significant, bipartisan deficit-reduction efforts to come. But as the housing crisis showed, a down payment that’s too small can leave borrowers with a debt they cannot afford,’ wrote the editorial board on Tuesday. ‘This budget proposal is similar to putting a band-aid on a cancer patient and calling them healed,’ chimed in a commenter by the moniker ‘trust no one.’

On Wednesday, the topic trends on Twitter via Op-Ed article’A soft power bargain,’ which makes a case for keeping the foreign aid budget intact. It’s a small price to pay, it argues, to ‘prevent the political instability and violent conflict that harms American security.’

--Alexandra Le Tellier

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, left, and the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, refer to President Obama’s fiscal 2012 federal budget during the committee’s hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Credit: J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press

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