Chris Cillizza.
Two in a row, just one more for the hat trick...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I see the debt ceiling vote tanked the market.
And, no, I don't claim to believe I can write the monocausal headlines with certainty the way the financial press always does, but it's quite possible that the people who are betting their cash instead of betting their ideology might not think austerity is a good thing.
While all the Very Serious People will tell us that we just have to cut more and more and more and more and more...
And, no, I don't claim to believe I can write the monocausal headlines with certainty the way the financial press always does, but it's quite possible that the people who are betting their cash instead of betting their ideology might not think austerity is a good thing.
While all the Very Serious People will tell us that we just have to cut more and more and more and more and more...
We Solved The Deficit Problem, Now Let's Add To The Deficit
Obviously I support stimulus measures including highly progressive tax cuts, but I have no idea why anyone thinks any of that is possible.
Perhaps if they start by meeting the Republicans half way... that one never fails.
Perhaps if they start by meeting the Republicans half way... that one never fails.
When I Grow Up
I want to be Athenae
I feel about this the way I feel about people who keep grizzly bears and gorillas and tigers as pets. They keep animals that outweigh them as pampered houseguests, feeding them raw salmon and steak and putting cute little collars on them and shit, and then are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when their "best friends" get bored one day and eat their faces.
It's an excellent post, and the comments are worth reading as well.
h/t NJ
I feel about this the way I feel about people who keep grizzly bears and gorillas and tigers as pets. They keep animals that outweigh them as pampered houseguests, feeding them raw salmon and steak and putting cute little collars on them and shit, and then are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when their "best friends" get bored one day and eat their faces.
It's an excellent post, and the comments are worth reading as well.
h/t NJ
Monday, August 01, 2011
Always Wondered What I Was Supposed To Do
Frankly, the teevee was mostly what my world offered me at the time, along with a few other butt-sitting activities such as reading and playing with computers and/or video games. And, yes, the MTeeVee once upon a time, for a time, did offer up a window into slightly different worlds than either pop or AOR radio provided then.
We Have Ended Budget Politics For All Eternity
Well, at least until next week or so.
Still busy. More normal blogging schedule to return in a couple of days.
Still busy. More normal blogging schedule to return in a couple of days.
It's A Man's World
I haven't read the book, but I do find there's a lot of resistance to this basic idea even from some good liberals (including some good liberal women!). There are a lot things in our society which are structured around the basic life cycle of a man, and which don't really account for the fact that, yes, women are actually different even over and above those differences which are culturally produced (short but incomplete version: they can have babies). Some are small, many are probably not deliberate in the sense of being put there in order to keep women down specifically, but the net impact is a world where women are not in fact treated equally by our basic institutional structures.
And This Play Is (almost) Over Just In Time For August
Presumably a shark will kill a white woman to celebrate.
But Mark Warner Already Has A Job
People care about jobs. Crazy talk.
The additional political concern (if you are about such things) is that after suggesting fixing the deficit will cause the ponies to appear, people might be even more pissed off when they discovered there's only pony shit in this plan.
The additional political concern (if you are about such things) is that after suggesting fixing the deficit will cause the ponies to appear, people might be even more pissed off when they discovered there's only pony shit in this plan.
"Social Mores"
Kudos to the Obama administration for forcing insurers to pay for birth control without copays, boo to the AP for entertaining the fiction that "social mores" have anything to do with the issue.
...linky fixed.
...linky fixed.
Put The Bus Where The Train Is
I don't know enough about the logistics of the parking deck at Union Station, but otherwise moving all of the inter-city bus companies there sounds like an excellent idea. I use them, and their not-quite-close-enough-to-metro locations haven't been especially convenient.
Deal Fail
I'd be happy for the deal to fail. Perhaps I'm naive, but I think that either a last minute clean debt ceiling would pass or the administration would give those Libyan Hostility lawyers the task of coming up with the rationale for why they can just do whatever the hell they want. Or the Fed would find some new exciting emergency powers and backstop everything. Whatever.
Now They Tell Us
I am not saying there were not any, but I would have appreciated a few more of these stories, you know, before the end.
Good luck with that.
WASHINGTON — The nation’s political leaders agreed on Sunday to spend and invest less money in the American economy, a step that economists said risks the reversal of a faltering recovery, in the hope of improving the nation’s long-term prosperity.
Good luck with that.
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