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Things Will Get Worse Before They’ll Get Better

House leaders have agreed on a compromise continuing spending resolution at the same level as before from October 2012 through March 2013. It’s likely now that the President(s?) will probably try to...

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Ryan’s Follies: A Crushing Burden of Public Debt

Paul Ryan (photo: love4utah / flickr) In celebration of Paul Ryan’s nomination, and in consideration of his reputation among Washington, DC villagers as a fiscal guru, I thought it might be fun to do a...

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Ryan’s Follies: Oy! Taxes, Decline, and Austerity

More on Ryan’s follies and the overall quality of thinking we find in this young “guru”! Here’s more from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. ”On this current path, when my three children – who...

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Ryan’s Follies: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, and Tipping Points

Still more Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ”Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health...

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Ryan’s Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression

Here’s the next group of Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On bureaucracy and innovation: ”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer...

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No, Barack, It Just Ain’t Gonna Happen!

Who else thinks the President’s speech didn’t include any plans to create the 29 million full-time jobs for the dis-employed? Please raise your hand! About jobs he said: ”We can help big factories and...

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No Plan B?

Woodward (photo: Bektour / wikimedia) Bob Woodward’s releasing a new book, so we are now seeing articles based on it. A few days back, The Washington Post published the ”Inside story of Obama’s...

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Alan Grayson’s Right; But He Misses the Larger Point

The Cliffs of Sanity (Photo: aeu04117/flickr) Alan Grayson’s e-mail on Moody’s warning that it might reduce the US’s AAA rating, suggested that Moody’s was either threatening a downgrade because it...

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Promises for America

(Photo: Vectorportal/flickr) The polling since the conventions shows that Democrats are doing better than expected. President Obama now apparently has a clear lead over Mitt Romney. Democratic Party...

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These Folks are Soooo Clever . . .

Last week, Reps. Michael Honda, Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Jan Schakowsky, John Conyers, Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey stalwarts of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) begged for mercy from...

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