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Invoke the 14th Amendment: Sean Wilentz’s Must-Read Advice to President Obama

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian, has written for the NYT today an absolutely must-read essay on the looming debt default crisis, how it would violate the 14th Amendment to actually let the country go into default, and what President Obama … Continue reading →

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It’s Always Been John Boehner’s Call (No Country for Old Men)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

I think one of the great scenes in No Country for Old Men has a lot of political salience right now. John Boehner is the man pretending events are not of his making; Obama is the woman saying, “The coin don’t have … Continue reading →

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Mint the Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Santi Tafarella

Ezra Klein at The Washington Post is against it: There are already cracks in the GOP’s coalition over whether holding the debt ceiling hostage is such a good idea, with Newt Gingrich, the Wall Street Journal and assorted columnists beginning to head to the exits. … Continue reading →

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The Republican Cliff

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

In the fiscal cliff negotiations, Republican politicians are facing an existential choice, and they’re showing signs of stress and fracture because of it. President Obama has already put his neck out. To bring the federal deficit down, he wants increased … Continue reading →

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John Boehner: If jobs are lost “so be it.”

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Repubican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made the following retort to job losses from recently proposed federal budget cuts: “so be it.” Here’s the Los Angeles Times: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed concerns that the spending cuts … Continue reading →

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America + Rule By and For the Rich = Democratic Plutocracy

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Over the past decade in the United States, why hasn’t income-based resentment politics been a broader cultural phenomenon? In other words, why don’t the working and middle classes hate the rich in more obvious ways than they do? Is it that they have … Continue reading →

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John Boehner on Health Care Reform: Hell no you can’t!

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

John Boehner’s “Hell no you can’t!” as a Republican refrain worked into Will.i.am’s “Yes we can” song. Tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks: Oh, and yes we did.

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Yes we can, John Boehner

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

And we did. John Boehner added to the classic Will.i.am song: The above reminds me of the Beatles song where Paul McCartney sings sunnily “It’s getting better all the time” accompanied by John Lennon singing “It can’t get much worse!”

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Mental Health Break from the Health Care Reform Drama

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

This old Disney cartoon short is oddly soothing, but is that Republican John Boehner as Foxy Loxy (at the 2:30 point)? Oops. It doesn’t embed. See it at YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvdhN_pXTsc

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