 From my Twitter feed (7/19-7/29)Jul 29, 2011 at 12:04 PM |
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RT @jbouie: http://t.co/szT1gA7 Status quo bias is an incredibly powerful thing.
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 The Four Kinds Of Pro-Electoral College Arguments | The New Republic Rick Hertzberg continues his thankless, vital lonely job of carefully refuting every argument raised against the National Popular Vote plan. For instance, one op-ed asserts: Hertzberg replies, w… |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM | |
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MT @conor64: Rush Limbaugh: Tax cuts are “the only proven way to raise revenue” http://t.co/QCT07f5
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 How Rush Limbaugh Keeps His Listeners in Fantasy Land Conor Friedersdorf – Conor Friedersdorf is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of… |
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| Jul 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM | |
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Or: Gingrich weaves “campaign” into book, movie tour RT @kendramarr: Gingrich weaves book, movie tour into campaign – http://t.co/0zmDU2v
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 Gingrich weaves book, movie tour into campaign – Kendra Marr In between stops at a Rotary Club meeting and an anti-tax town hall on the second day of his latest campaign swing through Georgia on Thursday, Newt Gingrich will head over to the Roswell Street… |
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| Jul 28, 2011 at 5:19 PM | |
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.@hiddenbrain on @slate: “Don’t blame Congress for not passing laws. It’s designed that way.” http://j.mp/oyWvFw
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 Congressional grades: Congress shouldn’t be graded on passing laws. Stroll around Washington, D.C., this summer, and you will see hordes of tourists thronging the national Mall. Parents ask their kids, “What’s the role of Congress?” And the teenagers respond, “T… |
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| Jul 28, 2011 at 4:30 PM | |
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.@smotus critiques ex-Rep. Mickey Edwards’s Atlantic article – reforms “would likely have little effect on partisanship” http://j.mp/mQbNVY
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| Enik Rising: Turning “Republicans and Democrats into Americans” Brendan Nyhan flagged this recent article by former Rep. Mickey Edwards (R-OK) in the Atlantic . The article’s title, “How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans,” is really obnoxious,… | |
| Jul 28, 2011 at 2:50 PM | |
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RT @kwcollins: .@jonahlehrer on political trust, fMRI studies, and congressional logrolling: http://t.co/UitJgjF
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 » The Collapse of Political Trust American politics makes me sad. One can’t help but imagine the history books of the future, highlighting this moment as an example of why the decline began, how a country this rich and free deve… |
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| Jul 28, 2011 at 2:38 AM | |
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Great news RT @mattyglesias: Coming soon(ish) from Simon & Schuster, my new ebook THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH: http://t.co/2oqXbHs
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 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Rent Is Too Damn High! I’m excited to announce that last week I signed papers on a deal to publish a relatively short relatively cheap e-book with Simon & Schuster. The working title is THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH and t… |
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| Jul 27, 2011 at 5:15 PM | |
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GOP whip: “never have debt ceiling increase again w/o serious efforts to deal with long-term spending” http://j.mp/pNs7Ci (3:59 in clip)
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 Rep. Cole, Once Boehner’s Rival, Backs House Plan : NPR Steve Inskeep talks with Republican Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a one-time rival of House Speaker John Boehner who now backs Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal. Copyright © 2011 National Publ… |
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| Jul 27, 2011 at 4:29 PM | |
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I’ve been ranting about this for years RT @Slate: Thomas the Tank Engine: weirdly nostalgic for British imperialism? http://t.co/sqwXTXL
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 Thomas the Tank Engine: The popular children’s show is sadly nostalgic for British imperialism. Sign up for Slate’s daily newsletter. There is something rotten on the Island of Sodor, home to Thomas the Tank Engine. Viewers won’t find guns, violence, or anything even approaching a double-e… |
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| Jul 27, 2011 at 3:49 PM | |
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Reminder: Absent catastrophic default, the state of the economy will trump overhyped debt ceiling positioning http://bit.ly/qNNfPi
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| Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs — The Monkey Cage That’s true, but not for the reasons Reich may think. Yes, some Democratic and Republican politicians, including Obama, appear to agree that government spending should decrease. But that’s not b… | |
| Jul 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM | |
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RT @JustinWolfers: “The bottom 50 percent of households, based on pretax income, make less combined than the top 1 percent.” http://t.co/Gf7o5gs
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 Lessons From the U.S. Economy’s Malaise – NYTimes.com Nuances and caveats help to keep the nation from solving some straightforward questions about the economy. |
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| Jul 27, 2011 at 1:22 PM | |
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Talking ‘Green’ Can Help Candidates Win Votes http://j.mp/n99AZo Paper: http://j.mp/qieJE2 (PDF)
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 Climate & Politics – Woods Institute Political candidates get more votes by taking a “green” position on climate change – acknowledging that global warming is occurring, recognizing that human activities are at least partially to b… |
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| http://woods.stanford.edu/docs /surveys/Stanford_Climate_Poli tics2011.pdf | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 7:41 PM | |
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RT @mattyglesias: How the media works: “Obama says Boehner wouldn’t agree! Boehner says the opposite! Who’s right? We don’t care!” http://ygl.as/mTOye3
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 Republican Debunks Myth Of $400 Billion Tax Demand | The New Republic When John Boehner walked away from a Grand Bargain for the second time last weekend, he claimed he did so because the White House ‘demanded” more revenue: Republicans have hammered this point ho… |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 5:24 PM | |
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After weeks of getting rolled by the
GOP, is it time for Obama to put up the Rahm-Signal? http://j.mp/nSjbGM #couldntresist |
 http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/f iles/batsignal.jpg |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM | |
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Seriously, negotiating failures are probably #2 on list of mistakes besides handling of Fed; see also @davidfrum‘s list http://t.co/tHEQATF
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 Obama’s 5 big mistakes – CNN The indictment has five headings: 1. Obama has ceased to lead on the economy. The management guru Stephen Covey famously said: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Economic… |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 5:04 PM | |
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New poll: 18% still think Obama is Muslim, 40% DK http://j.mp/oJ0ZSO Also, only 40% know Romney is Mormon – likely to hurt him as # grows
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 Most Don’t Know Romney’s Religion Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Gover… |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 4:09 PM | |
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.@mattyglesias: “the left remains morbidly obsessed with the desire to hear different presidential speeches” http://j.mp/pWVfe2 (ht @jbouie)
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 There’s Still More To Life Than The President Via Nicholas Beaudrot, Digby laments that progressives didn’t extract more cheap talk from Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton: It will be unlikely that we’ll ever have the kind of leverage we had i… |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 4:04 PM | |
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MT @joeura: My article of the behavior effects of budget deficits in the Boston Globe http://t.co/kup421X The paper here http://t.co/n2Fc732
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| Uncommon Knowledge Kross, E. & Grossmann, I., “Boosting Wisdom: Distance from the Self Enhances Wise Reasoning, Attitudes, and Behavior,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming). Lower taxes, big… | |
| “Deficits and Demand for Government” by Joseph Daniel Ura and Erica M. Socker The notion of “starving the beast” has been an important justification for fiscal programs emphasizing revenue reductions since the mid-1970s. While the idea of restraining government spending b… | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM | |
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More from WP/NYT on Operation Fast & Furious http://j.mp/oqhWQR http://j.mp/pqtHvh Emerging scandal struggling for O2 during #debtpocalypse
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 Guns From Operation Fast and Furious Tied to Mexican Crimes – NYTimes.com New details about a gun-trafficking sting investigation will be offered in a report by Congressional investigators. |
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| Operation Fast and Furious: A gunrunning sting gone wrong – The Washington Post Phoenix – They came from all over the country, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, brought here in a bold new effort to shut down the flow of U.S. guns to Mexica… | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM | |
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Obama gambit likely to fail: Reagan concluded his TV speeches failed to “apply the kind of pressure I needed on Congress” http://j.mp/jyZy9n
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 1:37 AM | |
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RT @daveweigel: Economy was growing! RT @philipaklein: Gallup: Obama’s ratings lower than Clinton’s were during 1995 budget dispute http://bit.ly/oQJFMN
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 Obama’s Weekly Job Approval Ties Term Low of 43% President Barack Obama averaged a 43% job approval rating for the week of July 18-24, tied for the lowest weekly average of his administration. Obama’s rating at this point is lower than Preside… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 11:58 PM | |
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Tom Friedman’s ‘Radical’ Wrongness by @gregamarx http://j.mp/oJ98jG
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 Tom Friedman’s ‘Radical’ Wrongness Critics debunk-again-the NYT columnist’s ‘radical center’ dream Over the weekend, The New York Times op-ed page published one of Tom Friedman’s periodic columns about the need for a uprising of … |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 8:36 PM | |
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RT @GrahamDavidA: RT @weareyourfek: What do Lloyd Blankfein, 50 Cent, and Lady Gaga have in common? Infographics to the rescue! http://t.co/atJEWv5
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 What Do Lloyd Blankfein, 50 Cent, and Lady Gaga Have In Common? | The New York Observer If you haven’t already read it, this week’s New York Magazine profile of “misunderstood creature” and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein by Jessica Pressler is many things, but most prominently: … |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 7:09 PM | |
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New study: Exposing voters to flag during vote choice q causes persistent GOP shift. Summary: http://j.mp/n0J2RC Article: http://j.mp/mVsfb8
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 The Politics of the Stars and Stripes Exposing American voters to an image of the American flag while asking whom they plan to vote for shifts them toward the Republican Party, a new study finds-and effects of that exposure are stil… |
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| A Single Exposure to the American Flag Shifts Support Toward Republicanism up to 8 Months Later There is scant evidence that incidental cues in the environment significantly alter people’s political judgments and behavior in a durable way. We report that a brief exposure to the American fl… | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM | |
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Bonica on CFR: matching funds only for constituent donors, bonus for 1st-time givers, smaller subsidies for big contribs. http://j.mp/mTSW52
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 Boston Review — Adam Bonica: Small Donors and Polarization This article is part of Leadership, Free to Lead, a forum on campaign-finance reform. Governor Roemer shares the growing optimism among reformers that campaign-finance laws designed to empower s… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 1:54 PM | |
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Attempts to be more authentic always seem inauthentic RT @mattyglesias TPaw to implement doomed “be himself” strategy http://t.co/bjuqAvR
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 Tim Pawlenty ‘Throwing Off’ Scripted Campaign And Running Hard To Catch Up In Iowa PERRY, IOWA â Tim Pawlenty stepped off his rented RV in this former railroad town, took one look at the handful of aides and reporters waiting for him to walk into an office building, drew him… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 1:48 PM | |
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RT @smotus: Seriously, MoJo, Bachmann’s responsible for teen sui
cides in her district? http://t.co/Bz594US |
 The Teen Suicide Epidemic in Michele Bachmann’s District Mon Jul. 25, 2011 3:00 AM PDT The first was TJ. Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school distri… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 1:47 PM | |
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NYT infographic on policy changes that have added to the deficit since FY2002 – correspondence to DC debate very low http://j.mp/p2gVAS
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| Policy Changes Under Two Presidents – NYTimes.com | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 1:08 PM | |
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Unbelievable chutzpah from GOP aide: *Obama* setting up “no-win situation… he gets…blank check or America defaults” http://j.mp/pAuP7G
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 Top Dem.: ‘If Boehner would just lead his caucus, this would have been over’ – Top GOP aide: ‘Republicans will not give him a $2.4 trillion blank check he can use throughout his campaign’ – POLITICO Playbook MARKETS CALM SO FAR– AP/London: “Global stocks started the week on a flat note as investors waited to see if U.S. political leaders can reach a deal to raise Washington’s debt limit and avoid a… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 12:47 PM | |
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RT @MarkThoma: Economists are terrible forecasters – why trust them anyway? http://t.co/93WrOln
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 News N Economics: Economists are terrible forecasters – why trust them anyway? The herd that is ‘consensus’ clings to this hope that GDP will bounce back smartly in Q3 and Q4, where all the while some pretty miserable data and financial conditions are staring us in the fac… |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM | |
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RT @daveweigel: #FuckYouWashington, Super Congress, and the inanity of AmericansElect: http://slate.me/qk1AWj
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 #F**kYouWashington On Saturday night, aided by “a nice pinot noir,” the tech and business-of-news writer Jeff Jarvis started to tweet. “Hey, Washington assholes,” he wrote, “it’s our country, our economy, our mone… |
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| Jul 24, 2011 at 3:21 PM | |
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