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Dealing With the Deficit Will Require Sacrifice
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2010 Comment (3)The yakkers of left and right have lost no time in condemning the draft proposals of the Simpson-Bowles commission. Grover Norquist has promised to lead conservatives on a holy war against any Republican who supports the necessary tax hikes in the bill. Keith Olbermann and guests spent much of his show last night blasting the report as a giveaway to big business and a devastating attack on government subsidies for the middle class.
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Deficit Commission Chairs Give Americans What They Say They Want
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2010 Comment (9)So far, I like it. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have given the American people what the American people say they want: a smart, fair path toward controlling government spending and paying down debt, which still preserves the best features of the social safety net.
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Drop the Bush Tax Cuts in Favor of Better Ones
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2010 Comment (6)How many voices constitute a groundswell? I argued last week that the House Republicans, if they really wanted to juice the economy, create employment, and win political success, would drop the empty debate over the Bush tax cuts and give us a new package of job-boosting “Speaker Boehner tax cuts” instead.
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Republicans Should Get Creative With Tax Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2010 Comment (17)Okay House Republicans, you won.
And your first big decision is upon you: what to do about the Bush tax cuts.
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Democrats Were Fired for Lack of Results, Not Philosophy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2010 Comment (25)The immediate debate of the post-election era is whether Americans repudiated President Obama’s goals--as George F. Will, Kathleen Parker, and other conservatives insist this morning--or merely his ineffectuality.
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2010 Elections Could Have Been Worse for Obama, Democrats
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2010 Comment (24)It could have been worse for the Democrats. Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid might have lost. The Senate could have followed the House.
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Sarah Palin Was Right About Clarence Darrow, If Not the Quote
Tweet Share on Facebook November 1, 2010 Comment (13)Sarah Palin may have misquoted Clarence Darrow this weekend, but she didn’t misrepresent him. If Darrow didn’t say “Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for,” he certainly said something like it, and more than once.
