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Tag Archives: centrism
Facts Have No Meaning, And Money Is King
We’ve discussed the perils of centrism a time or two before. Dean Baker finds David Brooks engaging in quintessentially Brooksian false equivalence: David Brooks is really upset, we may have a lost decade because he is sitting there being right, standing … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, david brooks, dean baker, economics, john cole, paul krugman, stimulus
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Centrism And Tribalism
Temperamentally, I find centrism to be quite appealing. It’s fun to try to remain above the fray and criticize the extremes on both sides for all evils. However, centrism doesn’t fit our current context. As we’ve seen in the debate … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, clive crook, democrats, republicans, tom friedman
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Mush From The Wimp
A wimp in the Senate so wimpy he sought anonymity to mewl out his wimpy mush: After pledging to send a job-creation package to Congress next month and daringRepublicans to block it, President Obama offered few specifics Tuesday about the form the plan … Continue reading
Regulatory Uncertainty In China
In China, this sort of thing can happen at a moment’s notice: Around 2000 people have been arrested, and nearly 5000 businesses shut down, as Chinese authorities try to force their food industry to improve its safety standards. … The … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged centrism, debt, deficit, economics, politics, regulatory uncertainty
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The Proper Attitude Toward Today’s Right Wing
Today’s Republicans make Hoover look positively visionary. Today’s Democrats bend over backwards to compromise with the Republicans. That would be fine, in normal times; but this is not a normal Republican Party, and these are not normal economic troubles. I … Continue reading
Posted in History, News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, democrats, obama
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Let Us Count The Ways
Tim Duy lists the reasons to be despondent about the state of our political system: The debt-ceiling has been proven to be a very effective weapon, simply because there exists a non-trivial contingent of Republicans willing to push the button, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged centrism, democrats, economics, messaging, obama, republicans, strategery, we're fucked
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The Big Picture
Unemployment, at crisis levels for Americans, is none too good for America’s budget, either: … kicked off with Loomis vice chairman Dan Fuss coming up with a very interesting macroeconomic point. Right now, he said, about 56% of Americans over … Continue reading
Posted in History, News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, economics, unemployment
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You’re Supposed To Sit On Your Ass And Nod At Stupid Things
Well, Paul Krugman is obviously a big fan of the blog, because he’s yet again channeled what we’ve been saying. From PYM the other day: rule #1 of MSM punditry is that critiquing the choreography and possible electoral consequences & … Continue reading
Picking A Fight With My Own Side
The central problem of current American governance is the Republicans’ treatment of politics as the continuation of psychology by other means, so that’s what we wind up talking about around here. In the current context, we are all Democrats by default. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged centrism, counterfactuals, democrats, hilary clinton, obama
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Centrism Rules The Democrats, Destroys America
Republicans don’t care what centrists, or liberals, or scientists, or anyone who knows anything about anything think about them. Therefore, they are always too far right, to the extent their policy preferences can be rationally categorized. “Centrist” commentators always criticize … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, clive crook, democrats, obama, politics, punditry
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Shouldn’t Have To Be This Hard
I see that Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman have been writing about the Clive Crook-style, reality-averse centrism that Jon Chait described in the post I linked below. Krugman notes that the anti-deficit lobby’s behavior “makes no sense — unless you … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged brad delong, centrism, clive crook, david brooks, david walker, debt, deficit, journalism, krugman
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The Eternal Temptation Of Centrism
John Cole catches Politico claiming that “the two sides” of an issue can be understood by reference to Michigan history Professor Juan Cole, on the one hand, and a few semi-random right-wing bloggers on the other. “You gotta love that line … Continue reading
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Tagged centrism, clive crook, fred hiatt, jon chait, journalism, washington post
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