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Brad DeLong points out that, on health care and the stimulus, among other issues, Republican economists have stopped thinking like economists.
Archive for June, 2009
June 21st, 2009
Category: Gay marriage
This weekend I participated in a historic vote by the NYS Bar Association’s House of Delegates to endorse gay marriage legislation. NYSBA is among the first statewide bar associations to back gay marriage and to urge the state legislature to enact the necessary amendment of state law to allow same-sex couples to marry and to [...]
June 20th, 2009
Category: Iran, Watching Conservatives
… that the Red team, which has spent most of the last decade stirring up hatred against Islam, is now cheering on a bunch of Iranians whose primary political slogan is “Allahu Akhbar”?
June 20th, 2009
Category: Iran
And is appalled by the faux conservatives who hate Obama more than they do Ahmadi-nejad.
June 20th, 2009
Category: Iran
That’s the only way the insurgents win in a situation like this. Maybe it’s starting to happen.
June 20th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
Last week I posted an alert for the appropriations subcommittee markup session in which the profoundly dangerous Emerson amendment was defeated by 29-30 votes. It’s already a shocker that 29 representatives would raise their hands for something so mediaeval, exactly analogous to a vote to require the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates without considering [...]
June 19th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Maybe we should call Sen. Ensign and the other … forgetful … Promise Keepers the “Promise Fakers.”
June 19th, 2009
$1.9 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy pass easily; $1.6 trillion for health care leads to panic. Discuss.