Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2720
July 23, 2010
How To Balance The Budget
David Brooks shares his view:
My view is data based. The international evidence shows that if youwant to balance the budget, something like 66 percent to 80 percent ofyour effort should go into cutting spending and something like a thirdto a fifth should consist of tax increases. If you rely on taxincreases too much, you end up messing up the incentives for people whosave and invest. Also spending cuts on entitlement programs have beenthe most enduring way to change long term fiscal trends...
Guilt By Association
It seems to me simply wrong to ascribe the bile of flocks of angry commenters that appear on any site that tackles contentious topics to the blogger himself. You can criticize him or her for not deleting them and providing a platform to hate (Ann Althouse's readers routinely mock me for having HIV, for example, and she does nothing) but you can't criticize someone for attracting such creatures on the internet - let alone convict him of the same views. To further convict him on the basis of...
The Ranks Close
Powerline, comparing Breitbart to Buckley!:
With the hounds baying, Andrew deserves the support of conservatives in his struggle with the Democrat-Media complex.
Yes, they're that insane. Limbaugh goes after Shep Smith for using basic journalistic ethics, and repeats the Big Race-Baiting Lie:
"This regime is tribalizing this country. They are dividing this country. It's not just enough to say that they are dividing us. They are tribalizing this country. We aren't Americans anymore. We're all...
Doth Protest Not Enough? Ctd
A reader writes:
Although I agree that you have every right to be suspicious, I suggest you change tack on the Trig stuff and just keep publicizing the story exactly as Palin presents it. Because I think the facts of the story as she presents them show her in even worse light than if it were proved that Trig was not hers.
From what I've read the facts as she presents them show her to be either monumentally stupid, monumentally hubristic, or monumentally cavalier with another person's life...
Three, Four ... Twenty Blocks?
A reader writes:
Here's what I find most ironic about Palin's staunch opposition to the Cordoba House: there are already at least 10 mosques in Manhattan, including Masjid Manhattan, which has been a mere 4 blocks from Ground Zero since 1970. Palin is worried about Muslims taking over area near the Ground Zero site even though they've been there for decades.
Ground Zero - Muslim - Mosque - Sarah Palin - Manhattan
Palin's Chances, Ctd
Chris Cillizza points to a major hurdle for her in the first primary:
New Hampshire has an open primary system, meaning that independents canchoose to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary forpresident. ... With Obama almost certain not to bechallenged for his party's nomination in 2012, independents are likelyto play a very influential role in determining the Republican nominee.Palin has struggled mightily to court independent voters since the 2008campaign; a recent Quinnipiac...
Mickey Was Right, Wasn't He? Ctd
A reader writes:
If you read the fine print under the graph (which you can only find on t you linked to, but not on your own post,) you see that the incomesrepresented are post-tax. In 1979, the highest marginal tax rates were 70%,double the current 35% rate. Looking at pre-tax income, you'd see a muchflatter curve. More importantly though, at 70% marginal tax rates, there's ahuge incentive for high-income earners to utilize tax-avoidance strategies, orjust plain defer their...
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