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Jackie Speier understands the importance of anecdote.
Archive for August, 2009
August 26th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Steve Pearlstein catalogues the grotesque lies and manipulations of the Republican Party in general and Michael Steele in particular. He concludes by asking: Have you no shame, sir? Have you no shame? No. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
August 26th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
A constituent at a Chuck Grassley town hall calls Obama a “little Hitler” and says “I’d take a gun to Washington if enough of you would go with me.” Grassley says nothing.
August 26th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
That’s the basis on which the state of Texas sent a man to his death. How many more are no rotting in prison for crimes committed by other people?
August 25th, 2009
Has India just established a domestic cap-and-trade system? Maybe.
August 25th, 2009
Category: Health Care
Melissa Bass asks a good question, to which I don’t have a good answer.
August 25th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
If the scare campaign directed at whipping up opposition to health insurance reform from seniors works, fixing Medicare will become politically impossible for a generation. “Fiscal conservatives”? Don’t make me laugh.
August 25th, 2009
Category: Economics, Spirituality and Religion
A theological objection to Krugman’s coinage of “economic purgatory”.