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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Steeling Myself for Wednesday's Budget Speech

One rarely goes far wrong these days expecting bad (Randroid-Lite, "bipartisan" crap sandwich, more pain for the precarious, giving your own voters the finger, and endorsing the Catfood Commission) as one hopes for better (being a Democrat, drawing a contrast, endorsing sense, doing the right and also popular thing, and calling on the rich to pay their fair share for once while cutting ruinous defense spending). In an update, Ezra Klein reports that the White House has explicitly declared to him that Wednesday's speech will not be an endorsement of the Catfood Commission while admitting, not very reassuringly, that confusion reigns. I'm still voting for expect bad, hope for better.

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