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Thank Republicans for Clinton’s Bold Deficit Reduction Tactics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 30, 2010 Comment (8)In his often-trenchant criticism of supply-side shamanism, the New Republic’s Jonathan Chait tends to inflate the significance of President Clinton’s 1993 budget reconciliation package with its tax hike on the wealthy. He’s at it again here, as he chides a Wall Street Journal columnist for doubting whether tax increases can reduce the deficit.
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Combating Tea Party Populism with Conservative ‘Inactivism’ Is a Fantasy
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2010 Comment (13)First Things blogger Joe Carter is on the right track with his innate suspicion of Tea Party populism. Its “excess of enthusiasm,” he writes, chafes against his “natural revulsion to political rallies, protest speeches, and vague agendas.”
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GOP Base Gives Sarah Palin the Edge Over Mitt Romney in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook July 22, 2010 Comment (52)Let’s go ahead and get ahead of ourselves: Andrew Sullivan says, “I think almost anyone can defeat Romney, a hologram of a politician defined only by ambition and great hair. Palin would destroy him.”
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Obama Brought Budget Deficit Political Problems Upon Himself
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2010 Comment (17)Paul Krugman is right: Sen. Mitch McConnell is either utterly disingenuous or economically innumerate when he claimed that, by the “last year of the Bush administration, the deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product was 3.2 percent,” and then “conveniently lopped off” everything that happened after the 2008 collapse.
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Obama vs. Hillary Clinton in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2010 Comment (32)Bernie Goldberg, Fox News Channel’s scourge of media bias, floats what he readily concedes is a far-fetched scenario: a Democratic primary challenge of President Obama by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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The Rise and Rise of the Middle Class
Tweet Share on Facebook July 2, 2010 Comment (43)Rod Dreher links to a depressing post by author-blogger John Robb, who predicts that America’s (and Europe’s) middle class “is soon to become a fond memory.”
