The trumped up war between the generations
Are the old taking from the young – or the young taking from the old? Both, according to the right.
The motive is to undermine public support for entitlements. Who’s winning or who’s losing, in their view, depends on the opportunity.
TRUMPED UP WAR BETWEEN THE GENERATIONS
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Tags: culture, generations, health care, liberals, Obama, politics, right wing, Social Security, Washington
Amazing
The bipartisan Senate plan for immigration reform is brave and smart. The amazing part is it might even become law.
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Tags: Democrats, immigration, Obama, Republicans, Washington
Always wrong. Never in Doubt
Captain Peter 'Wrong Way' Peachfuzz
Just one week before the Dow broke its record, former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, president-elect at the Heritage Foundation, is on Fox News predicting imminent economic collapse.
Wasn’t Captain Peter ‘Wrong Way ‘ Peachfuzz available for the job?
SOME TAXES UP, AND THE SKY’S STILL THERE
Jonathan Chait thinking along similar lines.
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Tags: economy, Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, Obama, taxes, Wall Street
The sequester is dumb. But awful?
Business almost as usual
My view that that the sequester may not mark the end of the world seems to be shared by Charlie Cook. Not that this is any way to run a railroad . . .
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Tags: economy, Obama, Republicans, taxes, Washington
Good news plagues Republicans
Sure Obama played fast and loose with some facts, but the overall improving state of the union was too positive for Republican comfort.
GOOD NEWS PLAGUING REPUBLICANS
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Immigration plan ignores the American worker
The proposed immigration reform nicely balances several interests but ignores one: the interests of the American worker. A giant guest-worker program helped kill the 2007 “grand bargain.” It could kill the new one. And should.
NOT ALL SMILES ON IMMIGRATION REFORM
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Tags: Democrats, economy, immigration, labor, Latinos, Mexico, Obama, Republicans, Washington
Thinking gets better in Obama’s second term
Call me a wild-eyed optimist, but the atmospherics in Washington seemed to have made a turn for the better.
THINKING GETS BETTER, THE SECOND TERM AROUND
Tags: John Boehner, Obama, politics, Republicans, Washington
A fair and balanced laugh
Thanks, Ross Douthat, for lightening up this gray morning with your musings on the upcoming Obama address.
Your right jab:
I’m going to keep this brief, because we’re all cold and there’s always a chance that the House Republicans might start imitating the Donner Party if we stay out here too long.
Your left jab:
I always knew my fellow liberal elites were self-involved, self-dramatizing and out of touch: I was in academia, remember? But the kind of mood swings I’ve had to put up with have been absolutely ridiculous.
Can’t agree with Douthat’s conclusion that Obama governs as any wild-eyed lefty, but the laughs are most appreciated.
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Tags: culture, Democrats, liberals, Obama, Republicans, right wing, Ross Douthat, State of the Union
Hillary Clinton, manager or martyr?
Of course, Clinton got sick. Who wouldn’t with her schedule? Why she stuffed so much into her agenda as secretary of state is the question.
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Tags: George W. Bush, health, Hillary Clinton, Obama, State Department
Defending Hagel
If Hagel can get on board tough economic sanctions against Iran, he’ll be just fine.
Tags: defense, Hagel, Obama, Republicans, Washington
