Pretty soon, even Richard Cohen is going to start getting a bit antsy.

Finally, a “progressive” idea I can get behind! Of course, many of us on the “extremist fringe” of the right wing extremist fringe’s extremist fringe spent those days leading up to the Boehner compromise — which, you’ll recall, was going to save our credit rating and keep us from “defaulting” — flexing our puristy Emotion Muscles, demanding that the GOP stick with Cut, Cap, and Balance, not yet again strike

Honestly. It’s just TEA Party rallies done up in hemp and squatting in tents.

Forbes, “Obama: Campaigning Like It’s 1936”: While Republican presidential candidates are looking forward by proposing variations of a flat income tax, President Obama’s tax-the-rich campaign strategy is looking backward—to Franklin Roosevelt’s 1936 reelection campaign. FDR won his reelection, but the American people lost: Roosevelt’s new taxes on business and the “economic royalists” gave us the “Roosevelt recession” of 1937-38. By August of 1935, Roosevelt had achieved some of his signature

Looks like pw was hacked and some bad code placed (again) in the site footer. I’ve removed it and requested a re-evaluation of the site, but Google tells me that can take “several weeks” — and I still have no idea how to stop the insertion of this bad code. Personally, I can’t reach the site on Firefox; I am able to reach it on Safari and Internet Explorer. I’ve

As Rick Perry announces he’ll possibly skip a few upcoming GOP debates (for the dual reason that they aren’t really “debates,” and he hasn’t looked particularly comfortable with the formats), Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich announce they’ll do a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate (tickets are at a premium), and Cain will open up a discussion on his 9-9-9 plan by appearing at AEI. Cain’s decisions show his typical flair for boldness —

Looks like a bedrock principle of the American Bill of Rights is fixin’ to get the bureaucratic treatment, where freedom is allowed provided it’s wrapped in the kind of red tape that, over time, becomes a strangle hold. And just in time for election season, too! Which is probably just a coincidence.

Here. You do the assembling. 1) From James Pethokoukis: “The Obama Boom”: disposable income adjusted for inflation fell 0.1% in Sept., after -0.3% in July, -0.4% in August. 2) From Rush Limbaugh: Entry into the “Top 1%”? $343,000 annual salary.

…Is that they’ve learned how to keep that title through an incestuous relationship with other “experts” who, like them, are so often completely and utterly wrong. Misery loves company, I believe it’s called. What I don’t understand is why, after such a dramatic record of bad advice and failed predictions, people not only still listen to them — but they continue to pay them handsomely for their willingness to put

“Cahill bashes state — and national — health care reform law”, Boston Globe: State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in Congress. “If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform