Harry Reid, Deep in the Mud
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 14th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Harry Reid, Deep in the Mud
Ruben Navarrette, San Diego Union-Tribune
Repeat of 1994 Unlikely
Christina Bellantoni, Talking Points Memo
Regular Guy Pawlenty Talks Budget Cuts & Spam
John Kass, Chicago Trib
34° FDecember 13, 2009 Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty isn't officially running for president. But that's just semantics. Last week, he was in South America on a trade mission with state business leaders. And before the end of the year, he's expected to make speeches in New Hampshire. No Minnesotan goes to New Hampshire for a winter vacation. If Pawlenty wanted to freeze his face off, he could stay home and eat his favorite Spam sandwiches. So he's running.Pawlenty is a conservative Republican governor of a…
Tax Cuts Might Accomplish What Spending Hasn’t
Gregory Mankiw, NYT
IMAGINE you are a physician and a patient arrives in your office with a troubling and mysterious disease. Some of the symptoms are familiar, but others are not. You have never treated anyone with quite this set of problems.Based on your training and experience, imperfect as it is, you come up with a proposed remedy. The patient leaves with a prescription in hand. You hope and pray that it works.A week later, however, the patient comes back and the symptoms are, in some ways, worse. What do you do now? You have three options:STAY THE COURSE Perhaps the patient was sicker than you thought, and…