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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: deficit spending
Morning Awful: Sluggish Private Hiring
Remember how cutting corporate and high-end personal income taxes to their lowest level in fifty years was going to create bazillions of jobs through the magic power of Laffer curves? Like so much else in the theology of conservatism, this … Continue reading
Budget Blowhards
So the House GOP is already breaking that campaign pledge to cut $100 billion in “waste”: On Tuesday, aides to Mr. Ryan and Mr. Boehner blamed Democrats’ failure to pass the regular appropriations bills for fiscal year 2011 for forcing … Continue reading
Another 1937
Recovery from Depression was going just fine until 1937, when conservatives convinced FDR to cut spending and raise interest rates — not because markets needed the actions, but because they assumed markets would eventually want it. The result was a … Continue reading
Debt Fearmongery
Financial Times takes a look at sovereign debt and concludes: The US does look vulnerable, but given that it has a reserve currency, it can use this to manage its funding problems. Its external debt is largely dollar denominated (and … Continue reading
Wheat-From-Chaff: Deficit Reduction
The chaff is settling. If the Democrats cannot muster a 60-vote majority in the Senate then they must pursue majority rule; Evan Bayh has chosen not to take part in that. Meanwhile, the GOP’s two-faced approach to jobs is mirrored … Continue reading
Bipartisanship and Budget Hawking
More 11-Dimensional Chess to drive the left batty: The bipartisan 18-member panel backed by Obama would study the issue for much of the year and, if 14 members agree, report a deficit reduction blueprint after the November elections that would … Continue reading
Exploiting Economic Ignorance
aTimothy Egan of the New York Times describes the rhetoric of a tea party pundit: Who is Williams? A garden variety demagogue who calls Obama “an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug” and the Democratic party “a domestic enemy” of America. … Continue reading
Which Party Is Fiscally Responsible?
Public debt under Reagan was about $200 billion. Under Bush I, it was about $300 billion. Under Bush 2, it skyrocketed to $482 billion — after starting with the $200 billion surplus left to him by Clinton. These are rather … Continue reading
Of Patriots and Taxes
Patriotism then: Patriotism now:
Selling Iran, Part 3
‘Iran is a crazy country, run by a new Hitler, who is building nuclear weapons to destroy the United States and Israel.’ That is the essence of the White House marketing campaign to bomb Iran, and it’s baloney.I despise the … Continue reading
