Month: August 2010

Remember ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’?

Dick Cheney famously told Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that Ronald Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter, which helps explain why the Bush administration cut taxes on the rich even more than the president...

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The Senate Shouldn’t Recess

What’s the opposite of a government shutdown? I guess it is a government that never recesses (i.e., takes a vacation). Now, of course, like anyone else, congressmembers have to take some time off. If nothing else, they...

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War Fatigue

Obama and Company are gearing up for an explanation tour of our goals in the Middle East… that we are there to keep Al Qaeda out, to stop the Taliban from returning to Afghanistan, and to WIN (whatever that means).Trying...

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