Even leaving aside the fact that the substantive policy consequences are almost certain to be very bad, austerity in the face of appallingly high unemployment is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. And, while Politico reports do indeed have to be taken with a mountain of...
Month: August 2011
Blast email from the RNC this morning Reach Out And Touch Medicare For The Record…It Was Obama Who Offered To Cut Hundreds Of Billions In Medicare During The Debt Debate.
Rick Perry's collaboration in the murder of an innocent man would probably help him in the Republican primary, and probably wouldn't be a problem in the general election.
As a journalist, it has to be depressing to be assigned an eleventy-billion word story about the exceedingly uninteresting internal conflicts in the campaign of a candidate who has exactly the same chance to win the Republican nomination that I do.
George Vescey's dismissal of Carlos Beltran, while a typical Met fan assessment, is one of the best examples of the fallacy of blaming a team's disappointing performance on its best.
During this long move, I've passed some of the time by listening to baseball games on the radio. On Sunday, during the longest portion of the drive, I was motoring.
That would totally blow Glenn Beck's mind.
Steve King. More here.
TDS offers some analysis on Obama's failures in decision-making during the run-in and eventual capitulation in the manufactured debt ceiling "crisis" from December 2010 to its end. The analysis gets.
A much, much better approach. Setting the precedent that hostage-taking over the debt ceiling can work is the kind of fraying of norms that will cause the system to become fully rather than partially dysfunctional.
Shame on Ian for accurately quoting Robert Bork's views; as Republicans have been reminding us for decades, doing this to The Greatest Legal Mind There Absolutely Ever Was is an.
There's good reason to wonder if the debt ceiling deal will result in significant defense cuts, as the current arrangement is sufficiently ambiguous to still allow some slow growth. Nevertheless,.