Monthly Archives: July 2011

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/18/debt-ceiling-crisis-gop-has-double-amnesia-on-deficits-regulation.html Here is one of Mr. Beinart's best, most informative, most rigorously argued columns, that I can recall. Really worth your time,attention and most importantly food for thought.Political Observer 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/calling-jim-demint–to-warn-gop-on-debt-plan/2011/07/18/gIQA4d2zLI_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions This opinion piece by Mr. Marc Thiessen demonstrates, if there was ever any doubt, that the Debt Ceiling debate is about the internal conflict between The Wall Street Republicans and the Tea Party Jacobins. Mr. Thiessen presents Mr. Jim … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19brooks.html?hp   Ladies and gentleman, Mr. David Brooks constructs, for your edification, another political homily featuring  such characters as Disingenuous Democratic President(A New Democrat who surrenders before the fight) , The trusting but naïve Speaker of the House John Boehner … Continue reading →

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/07/18/arianna_huffington_vs_frederick_douglass&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110   Here is Joan Walsh in a meditation on the Debt Ceiling debate, a roundabout with plenty of stops along the way, to bring as many political actors into this intellectually messy, nearly historically incoherent, and interminable essay.  I … Continue reading →

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Mr. Runciman is a Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. The jacket photo gives Mr. Runciman the appearance of a rather austere even intimidating person, but his book filled with a sense of the joy and exaltation in the … Continue reading →