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How far to the nutty right is the House Republican position on the debt ceiling? Well to the right of Republican voters. Nate Silver looks at the polling evidence:
If Republicans in the House insist upon zero tax increases, there is a larger ideological gap between House Republicans and Republican voters than there is between Republican voters and Democratic ones.
June 18, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
TPM: In an interview with The New Republic, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris admitted that Silver wasn’t one of his lifelines in the 2012 campaign [...] “I admire how he has built a franchise,” Harris said. “I roll my eyes at how he gets up on his high horse quite a lot on different topics.” Jim [...]
June 9, 2013 By Jon Geeting 2 Comments
Alex Trujillo sounds like a real mensch, and on that level it’s sad to see that his 55-year old business Supermercado Mi Tierra closing up shop. This is ultimately a good thing for the neighborhood though, because C-Town is going to be a decent step up in terms of product selection, and they’re going to [...]
June 17, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
Tom Hartley continues to impress at the Bethlehem Parking Authority. I’m not a big fan of the multi-space meters either because there’s nothing worse than having to stand in line to pay for parking. But BPA’s data does show usage of the Main Street Commons parking deck increased last year, so the multi-space meters haven’t [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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I wonder sometimes Jon if you read all of what you post, or headlines.
You do realize that the link shows the almost 50% of Democrats disagree with your often-stated position that you should not cut spending at all?
Just wanted to remind you again how far out on the fringe you are.
And Bernie is still waiting for you to acknowledge your factual error regarding Ron Angle. Be a man and admit it.
why is there no house democrats circle on that graph?
What?
The nifty graph ain't so nifty?
J. TITO
No way.
V. LENIN
The reputation of this "Independent" blog for factual information is beyond reproach.
Please reference :
"WEINER NEEDS TO STICK IT OUT"
Thank you.
J. STALIN
That's misrepresenting my position. My position is, and has always been, that we need a much larger deficit in the short-term, at least through 2014. In the medium-term we need Medicare, and the private insurers in the new insurance exchanges, to start paying less to health care providers. Tying payments to what's proven to get results (using the data the UK's NHS uses for example) would go a long way to bring our health care spending in line with other countries. And that's it. That's all we have to do.