by Digby | May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
... because if he were we could dismiss him as a typical stupid hippie to whom nobody should ever pay attention (particularly when sharp analysts like Newt Gingrich and George Will exist.) But now that people who the mainstream media can respect, like Tim Kaine, are...
by Digby | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
David Frum published an interesting letter from one of his readers the other day on the Reinhardt-Rogoff brouhaha. It provides a fascinating rundown of all the cracked economics that have dominated the debate for the past few years: The Reinhart- Rogoff paper that has...
by Digby | Apr 18, 2013 | Blog
So, according to Brian Beutler, the Republicans are balking at having a conference to iron out the differences between the Senate and House budgets. This is hypocritical in the extreme,obviously, since they've been braying about the Democratic senate failing to...
by Digby | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Some details are emerging about the so-called "softening" of the Chained-CPI for the most vulnerable. Here's one analysis of what we know so far from Shawn Fremsted at CEPR: And a just-released White House fact sheet claims that the proposal is coupled with “measures...
by Digby | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog
Mark this day. For the first time in history, a Democratic president has officially proposed to cut the Democratic Party's signature New Deal program, Social Security: President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security...
