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Gattigap · 12-02-2011, 01:58 PM

A Republican debate with a moderator that everyone will love.

12-02-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gattigap

A Republican debate with a moderator that everyone will love.

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire. When Trump appears in connection with a Republican Presidential primary, however, both times are as farce."

- Karl Marx

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 12-02-2011, 02:28 PM

So, Harvard finally got a cute little OWS tent city at the point when the rest of them were getting cleared out.

The 1% are slow.

LessinSF · 12-02-2011, 02:45 PM

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Just catching up here -- but if the Obama Admin really told Congress to delete the language that exempted American citizens (aside: Does Volokh explain why Congress obeyed this directive?), and the Obama Admin has made a clear veto threat, what does that tell us?

Seems to suggest that Obama gets an easy veto here, that cannot possibly be overridden. Which might not have been the case without the deletion.

Senator Rand Paul defeated it.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-02-2011, 03:27 PM

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Seriously, you, Adder and Ty are about the only ones left who can't see that the guy is a total disaster.

Hank says that it was all Iceland's fault.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-02-2011, 03:28 PM

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Senator Rand Paul defeated it.

I see that he was preventing the "Erosionn of Constitutional Rights," which is presumably much more serious than the ordinary erosion of constitutional rights.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-02-2011, 03:32 PM

Hi, club!

Hank Chinaski · 12-02-2011, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hi, club!

make them pay for their interrogations?

(bad quality, but great scene)

sgtclub · 12-02-2011, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ironweed

Interesting. Based on your prior posts about Barney Frank I thought you were irrationally hostile to aging queens.

good one

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-02-2011, 05:01 PM

Op-ed bitchslapping in real time, all the better for not having been scripted:

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David Brooks today devotes his column on Europe to the familiar conservative morality tale, in which the European countries in trouble are paying the price for their slothful, profligate ways:

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Over the past few decades, several European nations, like Germany and the Netherlands, have played by the rules and practiced good governance. They have lived within their means, undertaken painful reforms, enhanced their competitiveness and reinforced good values. Now they are being brutally browbeaten for not wanting to bail out nations like Greece, Italy and Spain, which did not do these things, which instead borrowed huge amounts of money that they are choosing not to repay.

Does anybody else on the Times op-ed page care to rebut this? Perhaps somebody who has glanced at the relevant data? Yes, you there, the bearded man with the Nobel Prize in economics:

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How did things go so wrong? The answer you hear all the time is that the euro crisis was caused by fiscal irresponsibility. Turn on your TV and you’re very likely to find some pundit declaring that if America doesn’t slash spending we’ll end up like Greece. Greeeeeece!

But the truth is nearly the opposite.…

Only Greece ran large budget deficits during the good years; Spain actually had a surplus on the eve of the crisis.

On his blog, Krugman also has a chart showing that Italy and Spain both had shrinking debts as a percentage of GDP in the dozen years before the crisis.

This has been today’s edition of “The New York Times hosts economic debates between eminent economists and comic sociologists.” Tomorrow, Berkeley mathematics professor Richard Borcherds and author Dan Brown will debate quantum field theory.

Jonathan Chait

Hank Chinaski · 12-02-2011, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Op-ed bitchslapping in real time, all the better for not having been scripted:

Jonathan Chait

funny you'd post that when every other day you try to argue against me about science issues.

Tyrone Slothrop · 12-02-2011, 05:38 PM

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funny you'd post that when every other day you try to argue against me about science issues.

I don't believe I've argued against you on science issues so much as mocked you for the epistemological knots you tie yourself into. And hardly every other day.

But you're right about the "funny" part.

Hank Chinaski · 12-02-2011, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I don't believe I've argued against you on science issues so much as mocked you for the epistemological knots you tie yourself into. And hardly every other day.

But you're right about the "funny" part.

A Liberal arts major sees epistemological knots where a trained scientist sees the underpinnings of string theory.

Adder · 12-02-2011, 06:04 PM

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A Republican debate with a moderator that everyone will love.

Ugh

Adder · 12-02-2011, 06:06 PM

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Senator Rand Paul defeated it.

Glad he stopped the "erosionn" [sic]. And that's high praise from me.