Archive for January 2009
Prediction
Posted by: liberalofdoubt on: January 6, 2009
Roland Burris and Al Franken will both be eventually seated in the Senate. We’ll see if I’ll have to eat my words. BTW, I’m optimistic about the new Congress. If the Senate can actually do all of this at the beginning, we’ll be on the right track.
Taxes, taxes, taxes!
Posted by: liberalofdoubt on: January 5, 2009
This post of Ezra Klein’s criticizes the fact that tax cuts seem to be the be-all-and-end-all of policy prescriptions. So, just for the record, let’s present the liberalofdoubt Unified Theory of Tax Cuts: (All this assumes government spending remains equal) If the economy is in a recession: cut taxes to stimulate economy If the economy [...]
Time to Backtrack?
Posted by: liberalofdoubt on: January 4, 2009
Apparently, it might be in the best interest of the Democrats to seat Burris, but only if Franken wins.
Third parties
Posted by: liberalofdoubt on: January 4, 2009
It seems like the third parties we have are more or less irrelevant, not just because they won’t win any important elections (did anyone seriously think Bob Barr had a shot at the presidency?), but because our two major parties are flexible enough and so prone to the formation of coalitions that special interests don’t [...]
You know it’s a crazy day…
Posted by: liberalofdoubt on: January 4, 2009
…when someone from the Corner is praising a story on the Huffington Post.
