Fiscal Conservatives Don’t Want To Cut Spending
Conservatives do a lot of posturing about the deficit, which they only discovered the existence of on January 20, 2009. I remember the good ol' days of the early Bush…
More Troops For Afghanistan
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Some early reports are saying that Obama will announce that he's sending 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when…
Fiscal Scolds
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I'm really sick of all the fiscal scolds who say that the U.S. can't pay for health care for its citizens. We can't afford not to, but almost all the…
Would Obama Get Rewarded For Deficit Reduction?
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Paul Krugman posts this depressing but rather sobering observation: But the political argument against focusing on the deficit is even stronger than he realizes — because there are very good…
