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</html><description>Was checking out Sullivan&#x2019;s new digs at Tina Brown&#x2019;s expat wankathon, and came across this appraisal of the Ryan budget &#x201C;plan&#x201D;: The president&#x2019;s walking away from the deficit commission he set up was, to my mind, one of those moments when his caution was not about the substance of the issue but the politics. He &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/notserious.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
