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Payback’s a Bitch
Consider this scenario: President Palin (or Romney or Perry or Pawlenty or whoever) is sworn in with great jubilation among movement conservatives in January 2013. Voter distaste with Democrats also...
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Who’s Running This Party?
The debt ceiling fight raises uncomfortable questions about the Republicans ability to govern. The fast pace of events has probably caused most people to forget about the failure of the Boehner Plan,...
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Signs of Progress
Charles Krauthammer endorses abolishing both the healthcare exclusion and mortgage interest deductibility. Add a carbon tax or VAT and you’ve got a Republican offer enticing enough to gain meaningful...
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Free the Economy, Free the Credit Unions
For now at least, the House Republicans’ regulatory reform agenda panders to the base on hot-button issues rather than works to make real regulatory reforms with a chance of going into force. If they...
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Who Broke the Government?
In my column for CNN, I explain why government institutions are failing: Under the old rules, there were certain things that political parties did not do — even though theoretically they could. If one...
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Perry’s Plan: Politics not Policy
In my column for The Week I explain that Rick Perry’s tax plan is designed to appeal to voters in the Republican primary, not to policy wonks who care about whether or not the plan makes economic...
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The Math on Social Security Doesn’t Add Up
Social Security politics is like malaria—it never really leaves the body politic and it flares up without warning. Thus, the absolutely unsurprising “revelation” in the Washington Post that...
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To Govern Better, GOP Should Work From Reality
In my previous blog post, I discussed how many Republican criticisms of the Obama administration’s policies are not backed up by data. Republicans don’t just have a problem with specific critiques,...
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Make Schumer and Pelosi Defend Tax Deductions for the Rich
Michael Barone points out the three big tax deductions which are hard to eliminate: the charitable deduction, the home mortgage interest deduction, and the state and local tax deduction. I agree with...
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Where Was the GOP’s Middle Class Agenda?
Saturday night’s debate provided a good example of how current GOP orthodoxy thwarts presidential candidates from talking seriously about the economic problems of the American middle class. Mitt...
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