mistermix writes: Unlike the primary debates, which are basically beauty contests, the Presidential debates get analyzed to death. There’s more than a day of “who gaffed the most”, “who looked the best”. Romney clearly is winning that part of the cycle. The next part, the part that never happened last Winter and this Spring, is …
The Rationality Assumptions Fails with Revolutionaries
Over at TPM, Brian Beutler is again spinning happy talk about how the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will give Obama tremendous leverage after the election: If the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year, it’ll give President Obama about $4 trillion in revenue over the coming 10 years. That’s way, …
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Obama’s “Failed” Economic Policies
I am fascinated by the way many Republicans seem convinced that Obama’s “failed” economic policies are somehow to blame for the slow recovery, while at the same time they seem largely unable to enunciate what precisely those failed policies are. Well, that is not quite true. They will often cite the over-regulation, deficits, and loose …
Romney the Credulous
If you do a Google search for “Romney data driven,” 2,290,000 results come up. This is supposedly one of his big selling points. You know, he looks at the data. And yet, of course, he doesn’t, not even on economic issues that are supposedly his strong-suit. In his now infamous talk to donors, in addition …
The Next Ten Words
People on the right get very upset when we accuse them of thinly-veiled racism in all this moochers and takers talk. They claim we should actually take people like Ryan at face value. Listen to what they say. So here is Paul Ryan in New Hampshire: “You see, by going after the root causes of …
The Totalitarian Mind
From the great state of Oklahoma (Oklahoma judge refuses to let men planning sex-change operations have feminine names): District Judge Bill Graves has denied name changes in two such cases so far — last year and again in August. The judge ruled both times the requests were made for a fraudulent purpose. …. “A so-called …
Debating Middle East Disengagement
Four years ago, I engaged in an extended debate with Dave Schuler from The Glittering Eye hosted by Outside the Beltway. My initial post argued: I have argued for a the United States to maintain a dramatically smaller “footprint” on the ground in the Middle East while actively seeking to reduce our “fingerprints” on policy …