Oh yes he is: More fundamentally, Mr. McConnell’s stand puts the lie to the Republican pretense that its new monetarist and supply-side doctrines are rooted in its traditional financial philosophy. Republicans used to believe that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts — in government, in international trade, on the ledgers of central banks …
Archives for August 2010
Fear Is the Mind Killer
Dr. Atul Gawande has a typically thoughtful article on hospice care in the August 2 issue of the New Yorker: … When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run—and when we imagine ourselves to have much more time than we do—our every impulse is to fight, to die with …
Vouchers solve everything
“Voucher” is one of those cool words, like “quantum” and “mobile”, that just makes everything better: David Brooks columns are often difficult to grasp hold of, but I want to flag this accurate-but-misleading account of how Paul Ryan’s “budget roadmap” achieves large reductions in entitlement spending: “On the welfare-state side, he’d sweep away most subsidies …
I don’t want to go to Chelsea’s
I believe that Bill Clinton was an excellent president, that we were lucky to have him, and that there are thousands of gazillionaires who are less deserving of their wealth than he is. Furthermore, I don’t want to hear another of Cokie’s stories about how Tip O’Neill got married in a hand-me-down tux and had …
It Was Nice While It Lasted
The Financial Times performs a post-mortem on the American middle class: The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the “personal recession” that ordinary Americans had been suffering for years. Dubbed “median wage stagnation” by economists, the annual incomes of the …
Open Thread: Pescado Mojado Me Encontre
I’ve had this song in my head ever since riding in Critical Mass on Friday, so here’s a corny video and an open thread.
End-Times Rhetoric Has Consequences – Who Knew?
Dana Milbank makes the connection between Glenn Beck’s crazy bullshit and crazy people with guns inspired by it. Beck has prophesied darkly to his millions of followers that we are reaching “a point where the people will have exhausted all their options. When that happens, look out.” One night on Fox, discussing the case of …
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