FACT CHECK: Spinning the new health care law

[Winehole23]

is not anybody's campaign slogan. Yet.

[Marcus Bryant]

And the great standardization/averaging of life for the bottom 80% continues.

[coyotes_geek]

"Tighten the belt, pay down the debt."

is not anybody's campaign slogan. Yet.

That's because "vote for me, I'll give you money" is far more effective.

[Winehole23]

More primal, too.

[Marcus Bryant]

is not anybody's campaign slogan. Yet.

And it will be a while. I'm not sure we'll find the happy fiscal medium of the 90s again. Medicare and SS remain unsustainable. Even if the Congress flips to the GOP totally by 2012, I've seen little to suggest a real appe e will exist to tighten the purse strings. And of course tax increases will be ruled out. And of course we'll still be chasing boogeymen in the War on Terror.

Likely a Obama-GOP Congress pairing would result in continued large spending growth and deficits.

Maybe the economic reality of exploding deficits as borne out in increased borrowing costs, continued high unemployment, and a stagnant or lesser standard of living will force the American public to accept tax increases and spending cuts. Maybe. Those could just as well serve to justify yet more tax cuts and spending increases. Until the world tells us to go ourselves.

[Marcus Bryant]

We've established what we are, now we're just discussing the price.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

And the great standardization/averaging of life for the bottom 80% continues.

that

[Wild Cobra]

And this one:



I find listening to Ween much more entertaining than the banal bull being bandied about.

I like the undoctored onces better. I used to watch the show.

Oooops... am I dating myself?