Ron Brownstein on Hardball recalls: BROWNSTEIN: April 2001, George Bush comes in $1.6 trillion tax cut. The House passes it, exactly as written. Senate cuts it $450 billion. He gets half of it back...
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No Sir, I Don't Like It
This isn't good: The House-Senate compromise, however, cuts funds for extended health care coverage for the unemployed; cuts $30 billion in aid to state governments to prevent reductions in social...
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Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever lubes your crankset. Tonight! I got to ride my bike today in 60-degree temperatures. This is both awesome, and not...
The Republican Economic Strategy
Congressman Peter King, arguably one of the craziest of the crazy, was on Hardball today and Matthews asked him what he'd do if the recovery bill works and the economy improves. Revealingly, King...
WTF?
"This stimulus bill is huge, so disastrous, and so harmful to our country that even though Obama has been in office for less than a month, I think it's already fair to label him as one of the worst...
A Blue Streak We Can Believe In
Hilarious audio recordings of President Obama cursing up a blue streak here. Actually, they're from the audiobook version of Dreams of My Father and he's quoting the colorful language of a...
New Huffington Post Column
President Obama Is Driving The Republicans Insane Enjoy and Digg!
$789 Billion
They have a deal. And I'll predict that this won't be the only recovery bill that we'll be debating this year.
More Shoes!
Susie Madrak wants more like this one: On Sunday, hundreds of angry homeowners and volunteers traveled in vans and minibuses and protested outside Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s multi-million-dollar...
Limbaugh Rules the Republicans
The other day, Fred Barnes wrote a column in which he claimed to have scientific proof that the climate crisis isn't man-made. His scientific source? Rush Limbaugh's former producer and current...
The War Is Over
These discussions always lead to mini-Civil Wars fought in the comments and in my email inbox, but whatever. Missouri state representative Bryan Stevenson (R-Webb City) said the Freedom of Choice Act...
Change We Can Believe In
The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi informed lawmakers Tuesday that they would not be getting automatically generated salary increases to keep pace with inflation in the next fiscal year. [...] The action...
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Hope for The Geithner Plan
Krugman provides it: But maybe, maybe, it’s a Trojan horse that smuggles the right policy into place. From what I've been hearing from people smarter than me, the good stuff sounds almost subliminal.
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Nationalization Under the Radar
Matthew Yglesias thinks this might be in the fine print of Geithner's plan. If so, here's to hoping the government doesn't overpay. They sometimes do that.