Republican Government

Now that they are Governing?

• 01/29/2010 -- Republicans scramble for credit on the economy 
• 12/29/2010 -- [N]ew nuclear plants depends now, as always, on federal subsidies -- will Reps subsidize them?
• 12/29/2010 -- Could End Lame Duck Sessions
• 12/29/2010 -- Dismantling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac isn't so urgent after all
• 12/28/2010 -- Rule Changes Pave the Way For Major Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts, Despite Anti-Deficit Rhetoric

It does not Compute? 

• Cutting non-security discretionary funds by $100 billion means a 21%
  annual reduction in the part of the budget that includes funding for
  education, health and human services and housing and urban
  development
• 10 Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan -- ThinkProgress »
   

Economic charts/graphs and discussions

Economic charts/graphs and discussions 12/22/2010
(Previous 12/07/2009)

• MetricMash -- Dynamic graphs of US economic data, state unemployment rates & historical charts --  historical charts enabling insightful analysis of US economic data including national and state unemployment rates

•  The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (thru 2006)

Factoids

 Factoids (Truths that may be contested)

Social Security originally covered most Americans -- NYT, P. Krugman 12/10/2010