Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Credit where credit is due

I'm sorry, but this lame sentence from the Washington Post just doesn't quite give due credit to Bill Clinton's hard work on the budget:

The federal government had a modest budget surplus when Bush took office in 2001, but ran a deficit -- funding itself to a significant degree with borrowed money -- of 4.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2004 and 4 percent in 2005, even as the economy was growing at a healthy pace.

Read the Republican response to Clinton's budget and marvel at how wrong they were. 22 million new jobs and rising prosperity for all AND a budget surplus were the fruits of Clinton's (and the Congress to be fair) efforts. All that work and the Washington Post can't even give Clinton a full sentence for all of us to admire in the splendor of its content:

The federal government had a modest budget surplus when Bush took office...

Labels: Clinton budget surplus, republican vote no....again

posted by Dave on 7:17 PM | 0 comments link

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