The noise from the right about the constitutionality of "deeming" beggars description. Consider Limbaugh: If [House Democrats] pass this using the Slaughter solution—in other words, literally shredding the Constitution. I decline to comment on his claim that passing this bill by "deeming" it passed will...
American political discourse
They understood that the best way to protect minority rights via legislation was to employ a three-step process.Step One: Create a system of legislative rules so inherently dysfunctional that nothing.
One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our.
Andy Engelson finds it to be more socialist than Communist Vietnam, thus supporting what we already know: the tea-baggers are idiots.The money paragraph(s):The much needed health reforms proposed in the U.S. won’t be perfect, but will go a long way to making sure everyone is...
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Ahem.Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning, she said, in "real America," which apparently includes part of North Carolina, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a media investigation to determine whether Americans are real.
As bean notes, Hilzoy has a good response to Krugman...I have no doubt that most of the venom that Krugman sees comes from Obama supporters. He has, after all, been on an anti-Obama tear for several months now. But he is an economist, and economists...