Posts Tagged ‘ezra klein’

What Obama Should Have Done – Ezra Klein, Part 2

Written on 17 Oct, 2011 at 21:07

I mean, here we had our "smart" president, and the first thing he does upon taking the reins of a nation in real economic peril, is throw together a spending bill whose numbers were pulled directly from the hindquarters of... (Continue reading)

Inside the Obama Administration with Ezra Klein … and Mandelman

Written on 15 Oct, 2011 at 6:43

Klein seems to think that it's important to understand how the administration got it so wrong... but I could care less. I think the salient point is that they knew they had gotten it wrong soon enough, and yet... (Continue reading)

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