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Speaker Boehner’s Folly Leads To Standard And Poor’s Downgrade Of US Debt
I’m no expert, but I don’t think S&P downgrading its rating of US debt will, as such, have any really big practical implications other than becoming the next political football. If you look at...
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John Boehner Pretends He Isn’t Speaker Of The House
Perhaps my favorite GOP response to the downgrade announcement came from the Speaker of the House. Said House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio): “Democrats who run Washington remain unwilling to make...
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Populist Sen Mitch McConnell: “I Think Everyone Should Pay Their Fair Share,...
Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) named three Republicans to the fiscal super committee that was created by the debt ceiling deal. All three have taken the Americans for Tax Reform...
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The Poisonous Radicalization Of The Republican Party
The death this past weekend of former Oregon Gov. and U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, was not just the passing of a good and decent man with a strong sense of Western independence, but a realization that...
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“The Days Of Our Lives”: Race And Conservative Nostalgia
Reihan Salam says that cranky old white conservative nostalgics aren’t racists they’re just white people who are nostalgic for a whiter, more racist America: One thing that is undeniably true is that...
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