Day: October 19, 2013

Reid appointed Senator Bernie Sanders to the upcoming Budget Conference Committee.     And incidentally, it looks as if Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson will also be  on the Committee…   A compendium of reports:   Huffington Post   The Hill   Daily Kos   Politics USA   Sanders  …

  INET economist Simon Johnson with one of the more salient post-shutdown takes yet, for its defense of federalism and its indictment of anti-government creep: The Long March of the American Right – NYTimes.com  With a last-minute agreement on lifting the debt ceiling, the immediate threat of legal and financial…