Dave Weigel: I think this all comes back to Democrats surrendering on the economic argument since, really, day one of the Obama presidency. I agree, and when Obama says things like this he’s full of shit: “At a time when so many families are tightening their belts, he’s going to make sure that the government …
David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
It’s The Economy, Assholes
Oh my: In the coming weeks, the Senate is expected to resume its debate about whether to extend the emergency jobless benefits that were passed in response to the steep increase in unemployment caused by the recession. But people like Frazee, who have suffered the longest in the downturn, will not be part of that …
Jobs Jobs Jobs
Obama and company just really do not get it, it appears. Jobs are what people want and need: It was a finely honed machine, this United States Census team, and it had a good run. But in the coming days and weeks, many of its members will experience the pain of unemployment — once again. …
The liberal Brookings Institute
Steve Clemons: Word has just reached us that Robert Kagan, currently Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is moving his franchise over to Brookings. […..[ Kagan — next to Francis Fukuyama, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, and David Frum — is one of the top tier serious intellectuals among neoconservatives, though it’s clear …
They’re Paid to Spin
Digby flags this CNBC clip of an anchor shooting down someone making shit up: That was Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which as far as I can tell is dedicated to simply spewing right wing/glibertarian nonsense across a variety of formats. It’s basically Reason magazine if they wore suits and didn’t care about …
Notes From the Alternate Universe
Economics edition: Ed Prescott is a Nobel-prize winning economist. But according to Stephen Williamson, an economist who attended a presentation given by Prescott on Wednesday in Montreal, Prescott believes the recession is President Obama’s fault. (Italics mine) Ed Prescott did pathbreaking work in the economics profession, and his Nobel prize is well-deserved. His work with …
The aspens are turning
When I talk about things that I hope are hit by meteors, I sometimes forget to mention the Aspen Ideas Festival. That’s an oversight on my part. Steve Clemons has some solid coverage of VSPs (David Gergen, Niall Ferguson, Mort Zuckerman) fear-mongering about debt (I couldn’t make it very far through this clip but what …