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It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald 2010 Bernie Sanders Civil Liberties Conservatism Democracy Economics Lloyd Blankfein Politics Radicalism Right Wing Ron Johnson Russ Feingold United States Elections 2010 United States Senate Us Senate Wisconsin 2010 War

These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.

~ Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman 2010 2011 Balanced Budget Budgets California Deficit Spending Economics Economy Of California Economy Of New Jersey Economy Of New York Economy Of Texas Economy Of The United States Financial Crisis Of 2007 2011 Governor Of Texas New Jersey New York Politics Rick Perry State Governments Of The Us Taxes Texas Texas Elections 2010 United States United States Elections 2010

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they would seek to reduce the deficit but not when it came to a matter of the tax breaks that had aggravated the deficit in the first place.Now there's a date set for the abolition of Barack Obama's healthcare plan, parts of which only came into operation at the start of this month. The Republicans are out to destroy the plan. Or, more precisely, to pretend to destroy the plan in the name of making good on election pledges. The measure won't get past the Senate.But suppose it did get past the Senate, what effect would this have on the deficit? The answer is it would aggravate the deficit. Somehow, somewhere, there's an override mechanism that makes destroying Obamacare more important than destroying the deficit. If only one could figure out how it works.

~ James Fenton

James Fenton 2010 2011 Barack Obama Bush Tax Cuts Christmas Healthcare Reform Healthcare Reform In The Us Politics Presidency Of Barack Obama Republican Party United States United States United States Elections 2010 United States Public Debt United States Senate

If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, just maybe, people power can still beat the money power. That senators aren't just extensions of parties and presidents, and that politics can be about something more than Democratic toothpaste versus Republican toothpaste.

~ John Nichols

John Nichols 2010 Democratic Party United States Idealism Politics Politics Of The United States Republican Party United States Ron Johnson Russ Feingold United States Elections 2010 Us Senate Wisconsin 2010
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