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Supreme Court Showdown

October 31, 2005

Here we go. With George Bush nominating the extreme right wing Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court we are headed toward the ‘great confrontation’ that we didn’t get with either Roberts or Miers. Roberts was obviously quailfied and hard to resist because he was conservative, but not necessarily extreme. Miers we didn’t have to resist […]

Economics, Politics / austerity, deficits, fiscal policy, Republicans /

More on Those Budget Cuts

October 31, 2005

While we have been distracted on the leak investigation Congress has been working assiduously to cut Federal spending. The rationale, of course, is that with a very large and intractable deficit, we have to exert discipline or ‘make painful decisions’ in order to correct the problem. As I have said before this is a sham. […]

Economics, Politics / austerity, Federal Budget, Federal deficit, fiscal policy, Republicans /

Budget Cuts: More Pain for the Poor

October 27, 2005

Don’t look now but the Republicans are planning to cut Federal spending. Under pressure from the so-called fiscal conservatives who are aghast at the bloated budgets that George Bush has signed off on, [and that the Republican Congress had sent up for signature], the House has found plenty of programs to cut. Not that the […]

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