Matthew Yglesias notes that The Economist is guilty of execrable reporting of late.
Economist: If Only Obama Had Done Things He’s Actually Done, Things Might Be Different
Tag: politics
Road to Recovery?
The president’s political folks have just made a video of the chart posted here 12 days ago.
The polling and politics of health insurance reform
Chart of the Day
Via Jeff Weintraub, why moving forward on health insurance reform looks like a political winner for the President.
And over at the New England Journal of Medicine, Brookings scholar Henry Aaron makes a compelling case for the reconciliation route. His conclusion:
Reformers’ best choice is to embrace the democratic process and attempt to persuade voters that the current legislation is in the national interest. They have 10 months to succeed before the midterm elections. If would-be reformers retreat in the face of current public opinion polls, they will be sent packing in November. Arguably, they will deserve to lose. If they stand up for their genuinely constructive legislation, they can prevail — and will deserve to win.
Gail Collins is the new Molly Ivins
For those of us still mourning the passing of America’s funniest political columnist, there is, most fortunately, Gail Collins. With these two back-to-back columns, The Biggest Losers and There’s
Always California, she takes another step toward the Twain-Lardner-Liebling-Ivins pantheon of American humorists.
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