Pretty good article from the Economist's DIA blog. I suspect many of the articles I cite with approval from this blog are from this author. Here's the part I like: [...]

Look out South Carolina Republicans - it may be only $50k, but it's the little things that eventually allowed the Emperor to turn Annakin to the Dark Side.

From Kevin Drum: In any kind of serious proposal, you'd expect the author to at least make a few nods in the direction of bipartisanship. They might be fake, but [...]

Always nice to find someone who wants to point out the inconsistencies (or lies) included in Ryan's budget. Here's the Economist's DIA blog using the L word, in a piece [...]

From Kevin Drum: So explain to me: what's courageous about a Republican congressman proposing spending cuts for the poor, entitlement cuts only in the far future, tax cuts for the [...]

From Paul Krugman: Except briefly during the Korean War, the United States has never achieved unemployment as low as Ryan and co. are claiming. The Fed believes that the lowest [...]

That we need to increase it over the next 10 years before we can start bringing it down by eliminating Medicare. And this is called a Serious and Courageous plan? [...]

(If you don't believe me, just look how plainly it's stated in the first line of this piece from the Economist's DIA blog: "PAUL RYAN'S plan to replace Medicare with [...]