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Conservatives Just Killed 240000 Jobs

Conservatives in Congress just fired 240,000 American workers. Conservatives in Congress just killed 240,000 jobs. Conservatives in Congress just essentially added 240,000 more Americans to the ranks of the unemployed. However you frame it, people who want to work and...

I Am Not A Burned Down House

I am not a burned down house. Like millions of Americans, I have a "pre-existing condition." But I am not a "burned down house", as Mike Huckabee and those who applauded his recent statement seem, to think. When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to...

Young Guns Deadly Ideas Finishing It Off

When last we left our story, the young guns came galloping into a critical moment. The recession is over, and as the dust settles it reveals that the American economy and middle class lay bleeding: 45 million Americans are living in poverty, last year saw the largest...

Young Guns Same Old Ammo

In keeping with the Western-themed title of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, allow me to set the scene: It's well past high noon, and as the dust settles the economy lies bleeding. Looks like it's all over but the dyin' and the buryin'. But wait!...

Constitutional Insanity

Digby confirms a suspicion I've held since the Clinton years: part of the method to the right's madness is to exhaust their opponents with their insanity. It's related to what I previously dubbed "The Tyranny of the Tantrum." Those of you who went through the 90s will...

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