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Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: The Philadelphia Story Edition
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... our friends and neighbors: Cookie Jill's environmental roundup will make you want to stick your head in the oven more than you already do. Krugman sez: You can't reach out to break bread with idiots. (Seriously. Do the Republicans even realize how moronic they sound? Or don't they care? After all, this is a party that turned a welfare-collectin' meathead into a populist conservative hero.) John Cole wonders why anyone even listens to Jim Cramer anymore anyway. And so do I, especially after ...

Little Piggies
Newshoggers.com — ... the overwhelming body of economic evidence suggests these effects are small. True, seeking offsets by eliminating outdated and ineffective government programs would be preferable, but that's a slower, more politically difficult row to hoe. As the administration seeks more savings on the spending side to fully fund the president's priorities, returning tax rates on the fortunate to near those of the boom-time 1990s is a practical first step. Update John Cole asks the question: ...

What’s Really Bothering You?
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Didn't want to have to blog today
The Sideshow — ... using the solutions we used to know worked. Damn, I was going to link it last night before Atrios got to it, but I faded out too soon. Still, too good to miss, DougJ on the bizarre sense of irreplaceability that our elites seem to have - like there aren't millions of people who would be happy to take their roles - and probably do a much better job of it, too. (Also: John Cole has an appropriate suggestion for what to do with Senator Shelby, and also discusses how the liberal media isn't liberal.) Julia informs me that the guy who doesn't like Obama's ...