eschatonblog.com - 11/24/2008
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While I've been more than a little skeptical about Treasury and Fed shotgunning trillions to their rich friends, there are at least germs of arguments here and there for why some of it may be desirable. But the home builders are serving up an even stinkier shit sandwich! The builders' lobby is ...
thenextright.com - 11/26/2008
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thenextright.com —
I've read a lot of discussion on this
blog and many other over the "failings" of the
party and what we must do to rebuild. The Washington Post today ran a feature story on the Rebuild the Party effort and talked a lot about the effort ...
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Which Comes First - Ideas or the Message?
thenextright.com - 11/27/2008
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thenextright.com —
Matt Moon asks whether we need a Shadow
Cabinet a la the Brits? I think it's a
splendid idea, but the key differences between the U.S. and British systems make it unlikely without some sort of formal party reform. To make it possible, we need a ...
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The GOP Needs an Ideas Czar
thenextright.com - 11/24/2008
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thenextright.com —
One of the main reasons bandied about for
the GOP's decline is its lack of ideas. According
to this re-telling, conservative think tanks once kept the idea pipeline freshly stocked, and it was this intellectual revival that underpinned GOP victories ...
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Are Progressives Out of Ideas?
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Matthew Yglesias —
It would be nice to think that one good thing to come out of the current disaster would be a rethinking of some of America’s badly misguided housing policies that, in the name of subsidizing homeownership, wind up pushing people to over-invest in their own homes. It’s bad economics, and it’s bad for the environment. But Via Atrios, it seems that some think we need even more:
The builders’ lobby is ramping up its sales pitch for a $250 billion stimulus package called “Fix Housing First,” arguing that financial markets won’t recover until home prices stop falling. They are ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/24/2009 — Hot new press release: “Boehner, House Republican Leaders Call for Federal Spending Freeze to Address Growing Budget Deficit”
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How Bad Can It Get for McCain?
observer.com 10/17/2008 — No one on John McCain’s team will ever admit this (before the election, at least), but his campaign is rapidly curling up into the political fetal position.
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Bad/bad
corner.nationalreview.com 3/7/2009 — With Clinton we got high taxes (bad) but balanced budgets imposed by the spending caps in Congress (good). With Bush we got tax cuts (good) but deficits (bad). With Obama we get tax hikes (bad) and astronomical deficits (bad).
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From the Department of Bad Legal Reporting
anonymousliberal.com 1/15/2009 — (updated below with link to opinion) Here's Eric Lictblau in the New York Times this morning : A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap ...
The Party of Ideas?
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Ideas for Change in America
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Bad News, Good News
corner.nationalreview.com 11/9/2008 — The bad news from USS NR this morning: Both Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney turned down the RNC chair job when I offered it to each this morning. (Aren't you glad to know it's mine to give away?) The good news: Mike Steele seems to be a frontrunner in ...
re: Paul
corner.nationalreview.com 12/18/2008 — Ideas alone do not have consequences. Ideas, even -- or especially -- powerful ideas are like seeds. If they land in fertile soil and are cultivated they can grow. On rock or sand or ignored or tended by incompetents they die.
The idea of ...
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