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07 Jan 2012
Posted by Dan Rosenthal
Posted by Edmund L. Andrews

    I heartily agree with Bruce Bartlett's scathing description of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution: it's phony, simplistic, ill-informed and cynical.

    But my wife stopped me cold this morning with this question:  "Ed, what if you were a Republican politician right now, running against a Democrat?  What else would you come up with?"

    My short answer: I got nothing. 

     Obviously, there are plausible conservative ideas about how to reduce the budget deficit, deal with entitlements, reform health care or regulate financial services.  

Posted by Stan Collender

In a front page story in today's Washington Post about Alan Greenspan's about-to-be-published book, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," Bob Woodward says that Greenspan lashes out at George W. Bush, the Bush administration, and congressional Republicans for terrible economic stewardship.

 




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