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If progressives are mouting a campaign to recall the GOP state Senators who voted to crush labor, and then Governor Scott Walker, then why not include US Senator Ross Johnson as well? There would be no better time to do it, and he certainly deserves it. I suspect that the answer lies in the fact [...]
Archive for March, 2011
March 23rd, 2011
March 23rd, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act
Senator Ron Johnson claims that the Wall Street Journal “ObamaCare” would have killed his daughter. Ugh.
March 22nd, 2011
Category: Foreign Policy
1. What happened to the “water’s edge” principle?
2. Not a good way to encourage non-proliferation.
3. If you support expensive humanitarian interventions that kill people, why not cheap humanitarian interventions that don’t kill people. Is it the killing you like, or is it spending lots of public money?
March 22nd, 2011
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
Why did the chickens cross the road? To get their iodine pills—and get run over on the way.
March 21st, 2011
Foreign policy analysis will get a lot better when we stop using flatulent phrases like “strategic”, “reactive,” “leadership” or “realistic.”
March 21st, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Public management
Paul Krugman has a nice op-ed today about Elizabeth Warren. Among other things, he writes: Given Ms. Warren’s prescience and her role in shaping financial reform legislation — not to mention her effective performance running the Congressional panel exercising oversight over federal financial bailouts — it was only natural that she be appointed to get [...]
March 21st, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Personal moment
This was my view from the back of an incredibly crowded room.