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The always excellent Matt Taibbi hits the nail on the head: Anyone who wonders why the Obama administration seems to be bending over so far backwards to appease conservatives and industry leaders in the health care debate and Wall Street in the financial regulatory reform debate can find their answer there: those groups make Obama [...] Ok, I think I’ve finally figured out the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to how they treat us “unwashed masses”. The end is the same, but it’s either K-Y: with (Democrats) or without (Republicans). Regardless, you’re still going to wake up sore. Wiki Commons – The Tube [...] A post by the always excellent Brad Delong got me thinking about anti-stimulus arguments. A common argument on the right is that it was WWII that ended The Great DepressionTM not New DealTM stimulus, and therefor claiming the efficacy of New Deal stimulus is not an argument for modern stimulus. On the face of it [...] With all due respect to the President, I’ve got a question to ask: When has this worked? I admit I have a degree of ambivalence – I do think Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn Rule” applies (ie: “You break it, you bought it”)(somehow incidentally I doubt they have that rule). We put our foot [...] |
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