Centrism Rules The Democrats, Destroys America
Republicans don’t care what centrists, or liberals, or scientists, or anyone who knows anything about anything think about them. Therefore, they are always too far right, to the extent their policy...
View ArticlePicking A Fight With My Own Side
The central problem of current American governance is the Republicans’ treatment of politics as the continuation of psychology by other means, so that’s what we wind up talking about around here. In...
View ArticleYou’re Supposed To Sit On Your Ass And Nod At Stupid Things
Well, Paul Krugman is obviously a big fan of the blog, because he’s yet again channeled what we’ve been saying. From PYM the other day: rule #1 of MSM punditry is that critiquing the choreography and...
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The Big Picture
Unemployment, at crisis levels for Americans, is none too good for America’s budget, either: … kicked off with Loomis vice chairman Dan Fuss coming up with a very interesting macroeconomic point. Right...
View ArticleLet Us Count The Ways
Tim Duy lists the reasons to be despondent about the state of our political system: The debt-ceiling has been proven to be a very effective weapon, simply because there exists a non-trivial contingent...
View ArticleThe Proper Attitude Toward Today’s Right Wing
Today’s Republicans make Hoover look positively visionary. Today’s Democrats bend over backwards to compromise with the Republicans. That would be fine, in normal times; but this is not a normal...
View ArticleRegulatory Uncertainty In China
In China, this sort of thing can happen at a moment’s notice: Around 2000 people have been arrested, and nearly 5000 businesses shut down, as Chinese authorities try to force their food industry to...
View ArticleMush From The Wimp
A wimp in the Senate so wimpy he sought anonymity to mewl out his wimpy mush: After pledging to send a job-creation package to Congress next month and daringRepublicans to block it, President Obama...
View ArticleCentrism And Tribalism
Temperamentally, I find centrism to be quite appealing. It’s fun to try to remain above the fray and criticize the extremes on both sides for all evils. However, centrism doesn’t fit our current...
View ArticleFacts Have No Meaning, And Money Is King
We’ve discussed the perils of centrism a time or two before. Dean Baker finds David Brooks engaging in quintessentially Brooksian false equivalence: David Brooks is really upset, we may have a lost...
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