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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/27/2009
Peter Orszag is disingenuous
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Fred Hiatt won't accept any version of fiscal responsibility that doesn't involve gutting Social Security and Medicare.
Krauthammer: Obama’s Continued & Disingenuous Attacks On Bush Beyond Disgraceful (Video)
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 10/28/2009
Krauthammer: Obama’s Continued & Disingenuous Attacks On Bush Beyond Disgraceful (Video)
— gatewaypundit.firstthings.com — Award-winning conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer ripped “child-like” president for Obama’s continued, unseemly and disingenuous attacks on his... predecessor. It’s beyond disgraceful: Via Conservative New Media (more) Krauthammer: Obama’s Continued & Disingenuous ...

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Peter Orszag Brings The Pain, Nerd-Style
tnr.com - 10/27/2009
Peter Orszag Brings The Pain, Nerd-Style
— tnr.com — Washington Post opinion page editor Fred Hiatt frets that health care reform will likely be counterproductive. Hiatt... argues that Congress is afraid to do the two most potentially effective reforms, changing the tax treatment of health care and ... (more) Peter Orszag Brings The Pain, Nerd-Style

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Suburban Guerrilla — What Krugman said.

Quote of the Day
Pacific Views — Via Paul Krugman comes this gem from Daniel Gross: In evaluating the relative claims of the pessimists and the optimists, you also have to evaluate the messengers. And in this instance, the Fergusonians lack credibility. H.L. Mencken tagged the Puritans as people possessed of the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Ferguson represents a strain of intellectual Toryism bedeviled by the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be getting social insurance. (Fellow sufferers include Clive Crook, Andrew Sullivan, and George Will.) ...

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Peter Orszag Brings The Pain, Nerd-Style — The New Republic blogs
Washington Post opinion page editor Fred Hiatt frets that health care reform will likely be counterproductive. Hiatt argues that Congress is afraid to do the two most potentially effective reforms, changing the tax treatment of health care and creating an independent panel to control Medicare ...
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking Watch (Yes, Another Fred Hiatt Edition) — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
OMB Director Peter Orszag has had enough of the misinformation being pushed by the Washington Post . Peter: Peter Orszag : Fred Hiatt... writing... that the two biggest steps that can be taken to reduce the rate of health care cost growth--changes in health care’s tax treatment ...