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Romney Ethics At The Olympics

by | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog

Ed Kilgore is righteously irked about the latest idiotic right wing contretemps over the fact that Olympic athletes have to pay taxes on their medals: You could see this coming the moment Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform put out its press release on the tax...

Federal Spending Is Not Trapped by the Social Safety Net

by | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog

The nub of Bill Keller's recent essay on why Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid must be cut is a graph – taken from a report by a group called Third Way – that compares federal “investments” with “entitlements,” showing that one is in decline and the other is on...

Huckleberry Graham's Grown-Up Con

by | Aug 1, 2012 | Blog

Everybody's all excited because Huckleberry Graham is being a grown-up: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday urged Mitt Romney to embrace revenues as part of a plan to stave off the automatic spending cuts set to take effect next year. “If he gave his blessing, it...

CR Deal: Just Kicking The Fiscal Cliff Down The Road?

by | Aug 1, 2012 | Blog

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Let me start by stating for the record that, while it would have been extremely entertaining to have a government shutdown a month before the 2012 election, the deal for a six-month continuing resolution kind of/sort of...

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