Generally, I think covering blogs on cable news channels by literally panning the camera over a the blog while summarizing a post from that blog is a pretty lame idea.(*)…

…On one level, it’s a complicated question requiring a long answer. On another level, it’s a simple question that’s easily answered. First, Social Security is not some little obscure thing….

…the premise that paying for income tax cuts by reducing Social Security benefits is a backdoor employment tax increase – or as Brad put it “robbing Peter to pay Paul”….

…point has been put in bold: Robbing Peter to pay Paul is in general not a good idea. Conservatives love this expression when the discussion is about redistribution of income….

…something called Peter Schmies’s Word Classification Test. We were, not surprisingly, edged out by Digby, Dave Neiwert, and Atrios, but managed to nip TBogg. For those looking for some partisan…

…Steve Rattner Council of Economic Advisers: Alan Blinder; “potential CEA members would include economists Bill Gale and Peter Orszag” U.S. Trade Representative: Gene Sperling or Lael Brainard Federal Reserve: “Alan…

Low & middle income groups bear burden of the tax cuts William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag, and Isaac Shapiro have provided an analysis of who gains from the recent…

…Lowry’s Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years (in fairness to rnjbond, he gave Colmes‘ book 5 stars too.) You get half credit for finding contrasting quotes by liberals…

…And the vast press corps covering the campaign almost entirely failed to illuminate the holes in each side’s arguments. Brownstein assigns costs, attributable to Brookings’ Peter Orszag, to a number…

…gain (Peter Fitzgerald’s seat) seems rather likely. In any event, The Washington Post has a profile of the leading Democratic contender, Barack Obama: His father disappeared from his life when…