baseballcrank.com - 11/14/2008
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The Washington Post, looking at the GOP rout in the Northeast, sells the hoary old myth that there is a large and coherent "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" faction that got ignored by the national party :
What happened, say some current and former Republican leaders, is that the ...
Congress: An agreement in 'concept'
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 12/10/2008 —
“The White House and congressional Democrats yesterday reached an ‘agreement in concept’ on a plan that would throw a government lifeline to the faltering Detroit auto industry but require the auto giants, their workers and creditors to quickly ...
Ban on gay marriage in CA still unclear
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/5/2008 — (CNN) — The outcome of an effort to ban gay marriage in California remained unclear early Wednesday since not all the votes had been counted.
Proposition Eight, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California, had the ...
Your Modern Fiscal Conservatives
eschatonblog.com 2/17/2009 — Because of the Republicans in California , the state is going to spend a lot of money to shut down public works projects and then, presumably, some time in the future spend a lot of money to start them up again. Responsible!!
Al Franken Says This Voter's Intent Is 'Unclear'
snappedshot.com 11/21/2008 —
Pat Dollard has more, including video.
What is clear is that the Democrats don't care about voters. They don't care about our troops. They don't care about America. They only care about power.
Getting fiscal
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 1/28/2009 — Via Lane Kenworthy, Gary Becker asks a question:
There appears to have been a huge conversion of economists toward Keynesian deficit spenders, but the evidence that produced such a "conversion" is not apparent (although maybe most economists were ...
Stupid fiscal tricks
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/9/2008 — So I caught Governor Schwarzenegger on TV, talking fiscal crisis, and found myself thinking about fiscal stupidity.
Economists may remember that the president of the European Commission once called the eurozone's "stability pact," which was supposed ...
The Chrysler TV-8 Concept Tank
thedonovan.com 12/16/2008 — Which, as Rod finally found, was the subject of the Whatziss tank this weekend.
The front view in that post was odd enough - I'm thinking this one, the side view, will trump that for oddness.
The 50's were a time of ferment in the tank design ...
Kristol Unclear
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/6/2009 — William Kristol's penchant for certainty fails him this morning. Here are a few sentences from his NYT column , helpfully annotated by me: "Israel could well succeed in Gaza....the Israeli leadership seems aware of the mistakes -- political, ...
A future for U.S. conservatives
theglobeandmail.com 11/16/2008 — By almost any measure, American conservatives should be thoroughly depressed. The Republican Party they support has just lost control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. They are about to lose the Supreme Court, which ...
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