Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 12/10/2012 by Juan Cole
From Saturday Night Live a comedic press conference starring Barack Obama and John Boehner, with Obama playing the elder brother trying to protect a victim of Tea Party bullying:
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Why, when the national government is on the verge of stepping into an era of fiscal restraint, do some insist that such restraint is the equivalent of falling off a cliff ?
Sequestration is a good thing. It will reduce the ability of the President, any President, to start vanity wars.
Allowing the temporary Bush tax cuts to expire is a good thing.
What free fall ?