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When it comes to my decision on who to vote for, it’s fairly simple to me.  It’s all about what the experts are saying, what the data says and the progress that has been made. While it’s true Mitt Romney made himself a rich man running Bain Capitol, this does…

From the files of, “Those classy conservatives” comes this: For the record, I think Candy Crowley did a passable job as moderator of last night’s presidential debate, considering Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney seemed hell-bent on ignoring as many of the debate rules (time limits, candidates not asking each other…

As James Hohmann writes for Politico, any comparisons between Republican Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and the successful 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan may appear to be apt superficially, but might not stand up under closer scrutiny. A handsome former governor faced a vulnerable incumbent, a weak economy and…

The whole column is worth a read…(emphasis added) Romney, who criticizes President Obama for dividing the nation, divided the nation into two groups: the makers and the moochers. Forty-seven percent of the country, he said, are people “who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the…

This is worth spending a few minutes reading. In the 35 years following World War II, (some) Republicans and (mostly) Democrats steadily and responsibly reduced government debt from 130% to 45% of GDP. (And worth noticing: that 130% figure preceded two decades of the fastest prosperity growth in American history.)…

As noted by Ezra Klein on his WONKBLOG earlier today, despite the echo chamber of conservatives who’ve called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the “largest tax increase in the history of the world,” the truth is that the ACA isn’t even in the top five largest tax increases in the…

The economic system known as Reaganomics has been at work in The United States since 1981 and, as far as I can tell, is working as designed.  Here’s more evidence of the stunning success of supply-side economics (or, as George H. W. Bush referred to it, voodoo economics). WASHINGTON —…

A former executive with Sentry Insurance and Republican, Bernard Hlavac bought a half-page ad in Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel outlining why he supports the recall of Governor Scott Walker. “I can’t think of a better way to spend my money than on this,” he said in a telephone interview from…

Paul Ryan is such an embarrassment to Wisconsin.  A fiscal phony on par with the other great GOP fiscal phony, Ronald Reagan.  I just love the way Krugman cuts right to the empty black core of the Ryan “Plan.” From This Week with George Stephanopolis. KRUGMAN: Can I say, the Ryan…

Data has always been putty to be molded by propagandists into informational power.  Through the inclusion of irrelevant data or the exclusion of relevant data, these students of Stalin use the data to fabricate a “reality.”  They rely on the obfuscatory possibilities afforded by rows and rows of numbers, complex charts,…