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June 25, 2010
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But without a doubt toilet trained. Obedient. Properly supervised. Cautious champion of the wealthy and elite, deferential to power, obsequious to authority and prone to grovel like a good little doggy who doesn't even need his wee wee pad anymore!
David...
Jon Kyl Takes Jon Kyl's Remarks Out of Context
Jackie Calmes:
Caucus: Senator Jon Kyl is not standing by his words after all.
Days ago a spokesman insisted that Mr. Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, “stands by his remarks” – made to a Phoenix Tea Party group and captured on a YouTube video – suggesting that President Obama had told him in a private conversation weeks ago that the administration would not enforce border security until the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill. Two White House officials heatedly disputed...
The Course of the Recession
From Stephen Gordon:
Felix Salmon on Why the Washington Post Should Not Publish Tomorrow
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? This is why:
Felix Salmon:
On Dave Weigel: The bien-pensant consensus surrounding l'affaire Weigel is that it's wrong he got kicked out of his position blogging for the Washington Post. And that of course is entirely correct. But even many of the people who are on #teamweigel will quickly add that he demonstrated poor judgment in writing what he wrote, and that this should be a lesson to us all. I don't think that's true. Our wired and...
With That, I Must Grab the-Washington-element@googlegroups.com...
David Gura of NPR wrote:
Previously, [David:] Weigel covered the American conservative movement for The Washington Element...
In honor of that, I just have to grab the-Washington-element@googlegroups.com.
God knows what it will wind up becoming. But it must become MINE!!1!
The Crash of Ezra Klein's Email List
Ezra Klein:
Ezra Klein - On Journolist, and Dave Weigel: I began Journolist in February of 2007. It was an idea born from disagreement. Weeks, or maybe months, earlier, I had criticized Time's Joe Klein over some comments he made about the Iraq War. He e-mailed a long and searching reply, and the subsequent conversation was educational for us both. Taking the conversation out of the public eye made us less defensive, less interested in scoring points. I learned about his position, and...
I Think Ben Smith Gets This One Wrong (David Weigel Watch)
Ben Smith writes:
Weigel and the Post: The current flap over Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel has its roots in a fact that suprised me when I learned of it earlier this year: The Post appears to have hired Weigel, a liberal blogger, under the false impression that he's a conservative. The new controversy over the revelation that he's liberal is primarily the Post's fault, not his, except to the degree that he allowed the paper's brass to put him in an unsustainable position......
Edmund Andrews Gives Thumbs Up to Dodd-Frank
Andrews:
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd put the ball over the line: [Mmy quick take is that the reformers held up amazingly well in the face of massive lobbying from banks, non-banks, Wall Street, hedge funds and the rest of the financial services industry. The bill would give the government new power to oversee systemic risk and to shut down giant failing institutions (another AIG) in an orderly way. It includes a surprisingly strong “Volcker Rule,’’ which almost prohibits banks, with...
If We Had 10% Inflation and 1.2% Unemployment, Ben Bernanke's Hair Would Be on Fire
But it isn't: we have 10% unemployment and 1.2% inflation instead
Dan Gross:
Print: The central bank says it has a trio of missions... maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.... In a speech earlier this month, Bernanke noted that "in all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly 8-1/2 million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009." In another recent speech in Michigan, he acknowledged that "high...
The Greatest Improvement in Economics in My Lifetime
The Journal of Economic Perspectives is now free and universally accessible online.
This is a very good thing.
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