Keep Larry Summers away from the Fed Chairmanship

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Monday July 22, 2013 · 10:15 AM PDT

2013/07/22 · 10:15

The Rubinistas who brought you 2008: The Unraveling are pushing the man who gave us the Glass-Steagall repeal to replace Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman. Given that the Fed is the only viable instrument to heal the economy with the House being dominated by Flat Earthers, it's important to get someone heading the Fed who cares more about job creation than the financial markets.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

It's not the "Ryan plan" it's the "GOP plan"

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Wednesday April 06, 2011 · 11:54 AM PDT

2011/04/06 · 11:54

I'm not sure this is worth a whole diary, but I think it needs to be said. The more the rhetoric of the GOP plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to millionaires gets wrapped up in Paul Ryan, the more it lets the GOP as a whole potentially off the hook.

Hawesdawg

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Wednesday January 05, 2011 · 9:07 AM PST

2011/01/05 · 09:07

Cross posted: http://zombieland-nowbrainfree.blogs...

Well, the 112th Congress is starting. And I am already sick of their shit.

Basically, the House is going to spend the next two years doing three things.

Hawesdawg

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Thursday November 11, 2010 · 6:59 AM PST

2010/11/11 · 06:59

I have seen the Simpson-Bowles report outline ways to solve the budget woes of the United States. But I agree with Kevin Drum; it is clear that the real fiscal issue facing the US is in Medicare. It is this single program that has proved most difficult to contain costs within.

But I think I have a solution that can win bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and insure the solvency of the federal government for decades. And what’s more, it will not involve any increases in the top tiers of the income tax, capital gains tax or inheritance tax!

Hawesdawg

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Tuesday September 21, 2010 · 1:41 PM PDT

2010/09/21 · 13:41

This is probably more of a comment than a diary, I'd apologize if I gave a damn.

I was reading the Yahoo blurb on the GOP filibuster of the Defense Appropriation Bill that included the DREAM act and DADT repeal. And prominently highlighted was the quote by Richard Scoriades laying the blame at the Obama Administration and the Democratic Caucus for screwing this up.

Can I get a WTF from the chorus?

Hawesdawg

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Thursday June 24, 2010 · 6:17 AM PDT

2010/06/24 · 06:17

So, a ranking office in the US Army and his staff defy military protocol, tradition and rules by ripping into the civilian leadership.

Obama seemed backed into a PR corner, but managed - I think we can agree - to extricate himself from betwixt the rock and the hard place rather skillfully.

But the broader question remains: What the hell was McCrystal thinking?

Hawesdawg

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 7:29 AM PST

2009/12/16 · 07:29

There is as much anger on this site as we've seen since the heady PUMA days. Everyone is calling the bill inadequate to what we want. Some are saying it's worth killing the bill (including Markos and Dean).

But killing the bill is bad idea in light of the history of how change occurs within the Madisonian framework that we have to labor under in DC.

This is how change happens. Slowly, painfully and frustratingly.

Hawesdawg

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 10:57 AM PDT

2009/06/16 · 10:57

Just today, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri came out in support of peaceful protests and against the election results in Iran. Montazeri is one of the most respected clerics in Iran and was the apparent heir to Khomeini when Khamenei outmaneuvered him for the position of Supreme Leader.

The fatwa is remarkable and below the break.

Hawesdawg

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 11:42 AM PST

2008/11/18 · 11:42

I live in the CT-5th and I really like Chris Murphy as my Congressman. But I'd like him a lot better as a Senator.

http://www.house.gov/...

This is his contact info. Please get in touch with him. Put the bug in his ear. Tell him you'll contribute.

I don't think DeLauro or Larson is interested in running, but Murphy would be a better Democrat for a long time.

Missed chance on Ahmadinejad

Hawesdawg

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 6:54 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 06:54

I thought McCain's strongest debate moment was when he rocked Obama back a little in their exchange on Iran. I suppose that you could argue that the whole pre-conditions thing was petty and insubstantive.

But Obama could have owned the topic easily and I thought he was going to with his opening gambit.

Hawesdawg

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 7:55 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 07:55

This year, for the first time, I'm teaching AP Comparative Government. I have a smidgen of background on the topics, but I'm basically diving into the true depths of this issue as we go along.

I thought I would throw out some thoughts and, optimistically, insights into this fall's electoral craziness through the medium of the course I'm teaching.

I also request that if you know more than me, please correct my misinterpretations.

First up: Institutions

Hawesdawg

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 7:26 PM PDT

2008/08/20 · 19:26

Yeah, I know I'm breaking ground with a vp diary, but we've been hashing it out in our house. I dreamed of Al Gore harnessing up again, but I think it will be Hillary and I think that's not a bad choice.

There are several reasons to argue that Hillary will be VP.

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And So It Begins

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Excuse me? WHO killed DADT repeal?

The Hidden Warning in McCrystal's screw-up

The History of Progressive Change

Montazeri endores the Protest Movement in Iran

Draft Chris Murphy

Missed chance on Ahmadinejad

Comparative Government 101

It's gonna be Hillary