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Evan Bayh, empty suit.
Archive for February, 2010
February 14th, 2010
Category: Financial crises
In helping the Greek government fudge its books, Goldman Sachs may have cheated the wrong folks.
February 11th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
They’ve filed a bill to make the filibuster a means of delaying legislation rather than a means of abrogating majority rule. It can’t pass now – a rules change could be filibustered – but it could at the beginning of the next Congress. If you want to send Harkin $22 (in honor of Rule XXII) [...]
February 11th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Health care reform was in the 2009 Budget Resolution. Using budget reconciliation to make it happen isn’t an “end-around;” it’s what reconciliation was designed to do.
February 10th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
If George Papandreou can solve Greece’s budget problem by fixing its corrupt political system, maybe California ought to try to hire him. Papandreou spent a chunk of his childhood in California (his father chaired the Berkeley econ department). That gives us a rightful claim on his services. Or maybe we should just propose a Greco-Californian [...]
February 9th, 2010
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Orrin Hatch is sane.
February 9th, 2010
Category: Law Notes, Watching Conservatives
Demonstrating the stunning success of medical malpractice reform.