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After a few more weeks of Democrats and Republicans playing their fiscal game of chicken, it would not surprise me if they come up with a plan at the eleventh hour to avoid falling over this cliff. Not least because they themselves created this so-called doomsday scenario—in the spirit of mutually assured (political) destruction—precisely to… Read more.
I have taken a lot of flak for repeatedly damning Tea Party congressmen as a bunch of political jihadists who are possessed of such misguided and dogmatic convictions that they consider any compromise political heresy: It is clear that Republicans, driven by their Tea Party political jihadists, are the ones (mostly) to blame for the… Read more.
Alas, the usual nincompoops in Congress and on Wall Street who are doing their damnedest to make falling off this cliff a self-fulfilling prophecy. Never mind that the automatic increases in taxes and cuts in spending that lie at the bottom of that cliff (if Congress fails to enact a credible plan by January 1, 2013 to… Read more.
