On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> > "Taken together, then, the deal is an almost perfect blend of policy
>> punt
>> > and political ploy."
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>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-debt-deal-disaster-averted-decline-straight-ahead/2011/07/31/gIQAWPaCmI_story.html?hpid=z2
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>> > I'm not wringing my hands like the author (and Lindsey Graham) are about
>> > "decline," but it really kind of does look like a whole lot of nothing.
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>> Matt Miller is yucky. I was on a panel with him a few years ago. What a
>> Third Way hack
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> I believe that, just based on this piece. But it was the first thing I
> could find that gave me a sense of the numbers. And as you all have been
> saying, the 900 billion could still turn out not even to be 900 billion,
> when it's all said and done.
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> j
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