protein wisdom: “I’m sure that if trees could think, they’d be certain that nothing exists outside the forest in which they find themselves. “Not to mention, they’d each be instantly smarter than Joe Biden.”

Mostly cloudy, with a 70% chance of fuck me.

“Outlawry,” August 7 of this year: Again, as with most of what the GOP establishment peddles as “complicated” and difficult to explain, the “revenue” trap is easy to overcome. Boehner holds a press conference and says “everyone from both parties believes in raising revenues. Republicans do it through a promotion of prosperity and growth: when more people are working, and businesses are burdened less, revenues always increase, as [historical example

Summarized: “Millionaires and billionaires need to pay their fair share. My plan would have cut the deficit. John Boehner, a GOP hardliner held hostage by the extremist TEA Party, refused it, because he wants to protect fat cats and deprive the government of revenue. That I would happily spread to you. Once I took my cut. For fairness.” Repeat as necessary. And to think, we’re paying for this. Of course,

It’s true. The takeaway? America hates the TEA Party and really desires a guy like, say, Romney or Huntsman, who will recognize the need to raise taxes and not get all bunged up about debt or deficit spending. Seriously. Political experts say so. So. Back to your holes, Hobbits. The serious, sober, realistic adults who got us here will take over now. Because you demand it! Pragmatism.

Jeff Bell, director of policy of the Washington-based advocacy group American Principles and director of its GoldStandard2012 project, writing in the Washington Examiner: What cannot be argued is that in the post-1971 system, the role of the Fed is to set short-term interest rates. The open market committee’s announcement last week means that by the middle of 2013, the Fed expects to be enjoying its fifth year of vacation from

James Robbins: […] White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained Thursday that paying out unemployment checks “is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren’t running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They’re not going to save it, they’re going to spend it.” True, they probably will spend the money, on their

Because there’s something about conservative woman and the “button” that really twists Will’s bow tie. First, with Palin, Will seemed to intimate that not having gone to the right schools — or not coming from the right kind of background — redounded against her as a presidential choice. And while this position surely flies in the face of the quintessentially American notion that any child can grow up to be