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Stealing from Krugman: Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action? But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed [...] From my iGoogle RSS feeds: No insult to SwissInfo as this is endemic in the news industry, but why aren’t we as eager to name a Christian Fundamentalist a “terrorist” as a bunch of stupid violent tree-huggers (ones that give the rest of us tree-huggers a bad name frankly)? In a word – “propaganda”. [...] Brad Delong captures it perfectly in one sentence: “They like the deficit because it gives them an excuse to cut spending, and once they have cut spending they can then cut taxes on high income Americans, recreate the deficit, and then cut spending again.” What do they say? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool [...] So another from “On The Media” (transcript here), an interview with Frank Firtzpatrick about reporting on baseball player Lenny Dykstra: FRANK FITZPATRICK: Did we all suspect that he was doing storage? Yes. Did we all suspect that that he was taking greenies, you know, the amphetamines that were omnipresent in the baseball clubhouse in those [...] I think Delong would call this “for the Green Room” (ie: something to use when arguing a topic). On The Media” dissects the McDonald’s “hot coffee” lawsuit (transcript here): SUSAN SALADOFF: Mrs. Liebeck was a passenger in a parked car. McDonald’s put the cream and sugar in the bag. This was an old- fashioned styrofoam [...] I haven’t read the book so it’s not fair, but I love this quote: ” There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, [...] I have to admit, this sounds a bit like the Republicans might have “blinked”: “Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes. I believe the best approach may be to focus on producing a smaller measure, based on the cuts identified in [...] Snatched from the comment section of Krugman’s blog on the NYT: “What’s interesting to me is this: On the left there is a raging argument whether Obama is a misinformed liberal, a moderate or a Reagan-lite who is in the pocket of Wall Street. On the right, there is no argument — They all think [...] |
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