A Fiscal Sell-By Date
Republicans have backed off their demand that a "fiscal cliff" deal include the "chaining" (read: cutting) of Social Security benefit increases. Logically speaking, that should mean that a deal to limit the Jan. 1 restoration of Clinton-era tax rates to income below $250,000 should be at hand. READ MORE >>
Year-End Cleanup
I've neglected to furnish links in this space to several recent TRB columns for the New Republic and other pieces not found here. Before 2012 breathes its last, here they are: READ MORE >>
Republicans are Scorpions, Democrats are Frogs (and What this Means for the Fiscal Talks)
All you need to know about the current state of the fiscal cliff negotiations is that Republicans are scorpions and Democrats are frogs. READ MORE >>
Why Is Ben Bernanke The Only Man in Washington Who Cares About Jobs?
JARED BERNSTEIN, a Washington wonk and former economic adviser to Joe Biden, recently posed an interesting question. Why is it, Bernstein asked on his blog, that the only part of the government acting with any urgency to ease joblessness—the economic problem affecting the greatest number of Americans—is the unelected Federal Reserve? READ MORE >>
Are Democrats Reverting to Wimps?
What part of "You're holding all the cards" don't the Democrats understand? READ MORE >>
The Pointless Pursuit of “Tax Certainty”
Yank the Chain: Washington's Terrible New Social Security Fix
Soak the Almost Rich
DeMint: Farewell, Filibusteringest Senator
GOPocalypse: A Guide to Republican Purges
“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” —Revelation 9:6 READ MORE >>
