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Alan Simpson

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On March 14, 2025
Alan Simpson has died. The senator from Wyoming was a mean man. He was always a mean man. Like his friend John McCain, meanness became his currency. He will be remembered as “bipartisan” today because he embodied the Beltway desire to slash deficits by making...

Awful

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On April 12, 2011

Several of our commenters called it: Now it’s getting a little clearer: Obama will throw his support behind the bipartisan effort in the Senate to turn the Simpson-Bowles plan into.

Non-Starter

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On November 17, 2010
Jon Chait, formerly the strongest defender of the Catfood Commission among liberal bloggers, sees new data about its inequities and jumps ship. A rare triumph for the self-correcting blogosphere! Albeit often for different (and worse) reasons, this will also be the reaction of most members...
Shorter Alan Simpson:  "I can't believe these veterans.   First, they risk their lives, often to fight idiotic wars cooked up by reactionary policymakers such as myself (you know, people who actually deserve taxpayer-funded health care and cushy pensions), then they expect us to pay them...
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