The Missing Link 0
Herewith linked and buiding on today’s QOTD–The dirty truth behind one-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand press coverage, from Tom Levenson at Balloon juice:
That is to say, as everyone reading this already knows—but too many in the country haven’t grasped, yet—the basic policy presumptions of the Republicans either have been tried and been seen to fail (see, e.g. tax cuts and economic growth, George Bush II edition) or can be analyzed and recognized as disastrous. (See, e.g., the GOP and Ryan plan to return health care to the status quo ante of the pre-Obamacare universe, only worse, with no cost controls and the burden of paying for health care inflation shifted from a national insurance pool to an individually aging population, AKA You and Me).
