Author - Bob Cesca

Economy

Super Stupid

I keep forgetting to include Paul Broun in my Crazy Caucus roster along with Allen West, Michele Bachmann, Steve King and Louie Gohmert. But yeah. He's in there. Yes, Broun doesn't want to raise the...

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Economy

Deficit Shmeficit

Kevin Drum on federal spending hysteria: Bottom line: our current deficit panic is mostly just manufactured hysteria. Our recent spike in spending is an artifact of the recession and will go away in...

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Economy

Boehner's Plan is Sabotage

ThinkProgress: Erin Burnett reported that she spoke with an investor who talked directly with the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. According to the Standard & Poor’s source, John...

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Wingnuts

Oy, Oy, Oy

David Dayen from Firedog Lake tweeted this the other day, reacting to the president's press conference: Barack Obama: never angrier than when being denied the chance to cut Social Security, Medicare...

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Economy

Domestic Extremists

Nick Kristoff puts the Republicans and their nihilism into perspective: If China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage...

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Quote of the Day

"It is also true, incidentally, that America is very low-tax compared to other developed countries. So nobody likes to pay taxes, everybody says ‘my taxes are too damn high,’ and they’re right...

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