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Big Spending: Always in Season

Ahenobarbus Wrote: Jan 08, 2010 4:23 PM

that the Democrat president receives Republican backing when he initiates something that they agree with -- like more troops in Afghanistan -- but that the (nominally) Republican President received opposition with the Democrats even when he increased entitlement spending. No matter what progressive policies he pursued, they always opposed it as "not enough". I don't know if this is due to militant partisanism or if they honestly are so socialist that anything less than a fascist solution is inadequate.

I'm not sure it really matters any longer. They apparently have no sense whatsoever of fiscal limitations. They seem to honestly believe that American capitalism is a bottomless well of cash that will produce whatever amount of...

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Big Spending: Always in Season

Doctors need to do two things: correctly diagnose a problem and then prescribe the correct solution. The same goes for political pundits. Ezra Klein is halfway there.

In the Washington Post recently, Klein noted that California’s budget crisis is a warning. Klein, however, points the finger in the wrong direction: at the “minority party” (Republicans) that refuses to “cast aside” its “bickering” even though the state faces “an emergency.” “California is in a total fiscal crisis,” Klein writes. Yet, he claims, “It’s had to slash state services to the bone and will have to cut further.” This is something of a...

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