Granted David Ignatius is even more of an idiot about economic matters than most Villagers, but Matt Yglesias (via Atrios) poses a very good question: We have in this country one political party that doesn’t care at all about the budget deficit. And we have another political party that gets crapped on by the establishment …
Archives for January 2010
Looking Forward Looking Back
I’m sitting here watching a 2 hour special on Biography about the making of Star Wars, and I am wondering how musical scores like what Williams made for the movie will be looked at in the future. Will someone in 2110 be driving to work in their hovercraft listening to Interglobal Public Radio listening to …
Big nothing
The Clinton recession, I guess: There has been zero net job creation since December 1999. No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent. Economic output rose at its slowest rate of any decade since the 1930s as well. Middle-income households made less in 2008, when adjusted for …
Even James Joyner
God, this is depressing: There’s room to criticize the administration’s response to the crisis, most notably DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s idiotic insistence that “the system worked.” But the idea that the president was somehow supposed to stop the underwear bomber based on vague intelligence of an increased terrorism risk over the holidays is unreasonable. Here …
Open Thread
Apparently I have decided to ring in the New Year with a head cold and some chest congestion. Awesome.
How soon is now
In one of the more interesting end-of-the-decade pieces, E. J. Dionne writes: I’m afraid that the past 10 years will be seen as a time when the United States badly lost its way by using our military power carelessly, misunderstanding the real challenges to our long-term security, and pursuing domestic policies that constrained our options …
Simply Not a Credible News Organization
This made me laugh out loud: And then you read the article, and the Democrats calling for her resignation are some state Senator somewhere and former Lieberman aide Dan Gerstein. This is not a news organization, it is the propaganda wing of the GOP. In related news, Steve Benen notes that Breitbart’s clowns at Big …
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