If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Bush 41 and Reagan economist Bruce Bartlett is again urging the abolition of the debt ceiling: Almost 10 years ago, I testified before the Senate Finance Committee that the debt limit should be abolished. Among the others who testified that day, including Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, no one supported my position. [..] Unless the party […]
Joe Nocera says what everyone is thinking today, and what some people have been saying for the past couple of years, RE: the American Taliban: You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. Like ideologues everywhere, they scorned compromise. When John Boehner, the House speaker, tried to cut a deal with President […]