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