Greg Sargent and Kevin Drum seem to think so, at least conditionally — one idea being that, as Greg wrote me on Twitter, “people support jobs creation policies but see govt failing to enact them,” the upshot being that anti-government sentiment may be a product of ineffective government, not just a government that has grown too big. To lay the foundation for the thesis, Sargent points to a Pew Economic
October 27, 2011
October 27, 2011
Are conservatives overconfident about their ownership of anti-government sentiment?
October 27, 2011
"For liberals, income inequality is the new global warming"
You and your “conservative” evidence to the contrary are deniers and should really just shut up and stop hating the Working Man. We simply can’t have a proper and intelligent discussion on how to fix the problem if you keep bringing in scholarly studies suggesting that there isn’t one.
October 27, 2011
"John Edwards loses bid to have charges dismissed"
Now kicking himself for not having tried his arguments out in the other America.
October 27, 2011
Obama to students: "Would, say, a ten spot get you to go door-to-door for me, you think?"
When you’ve lost the Atlantic…: Some opponents of excessive executive power may question whether an executive order can really even accomplish these ends. The president is ordering a policy change for loan consolidation and changing the implementation date for previously passed legislation. Either of these actions could make for a really interesting court challenge, as both appear to stretch the limits of what an executive order was designed to do
October 27, 2011
"Peter Schiff Meets Occupy Wall Street"
One slap is a bitch slap. This? More like a kennel punch. (h/t Carin)
October 27, 2011
"The Mortgage Crisis: Some Inside Views"
Not surprising, but again, ammunition to beat back the revisionist history the political class (mostly on the left, but some on the right) is marshaling to scapegoat banks and Wall Street for what was, in effect, a failure of governmental and social hubris. From professor of finance at the Columbia Business School and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Charles Calomiris, writing in the WSJ: Occupy
October 27, 2011
The Rich get richer, &tc
But even if they do, so what? First off, the “rich” is not a static category; secondly, the complaint, such as it is, should be that “the rich” are getting richer faster — not that they are getting rich at the expense of the (also not static) “poor”: standard of living has gone up considerably for nearly everyone, as anyone who lived through Carter will tell you; and thirdly, and
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on social tensions in the civil society and their inevitable manifestations in both TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street protests
“In the late 80s, right after I did Cheerleader Camp, I think, I ‘occupied’ a tarp at Plummer Park in West Hollywood for like, three months, eating nothing but street tacos and Hibachi beans — mostly because I’d sunk all of my money into a crank lab out near Reseda without really knowing a whole lot about that shit works. Turns out you and your friend Kip shouldn’t get drunk