What prompted my post from last night was thinking about the “fiscal cliff.” I admit, it is fun to see the Obama putting the screws to Boehner. It is also fun to see all the frantic efforts to parse the meaning of the Norquist pledge. And yet, I think there is a historic opportunity here …
Austerity Bombing
Open Thread: Joe Goes Shopping (at Costco)
You go, Joe! From the Huffington Post (sorry): WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden went on a Costco shopping spree Thursday and called for Congress to extend middle-class tax cuts as part of a deal to avoid the looming “fiscal cliff.” Biden, who flashed a store membership card as he entered the city’s first Costco …
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Blowing It Up At The Austerity Bomb Range
Oh, this isn’t going to go over well with the usual suspects, but it’s going to be everywhere anyhow today. Listen to top Democrats and Republicans talk on camera, and it sounds like they could not be further apart on a year-end tax-and-spending deal – a down payment on a $4 trillion grand bargain. But …
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Early Morning Open Thread: I {Heart} the PCCC
… and my new Senator, Elizabeth Warren. Heartening news, from Politico, no less: Proposals to reduce spending on the military, cut some agriculture subsidies, and eliminate subsidies to oil companies would all win public backing by large margins, according to the poll conducted for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, obtained by POLITICO. More specifically, the …
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Over the Fiscal Cliff for “Those People”
Kris E. Benson at Wonkette links to an excellent Atlantic article on the Republican’s proposed Austerity Bomb (“We only have a budget crisis if [the very richest households] refuse to pay higher taxes”), and points out an added little poison sac in the details: Your Wonkette agrees with the Atlantic’s James Kwack that Olds should …
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