Who’s got the biggest swinging — deficit reduction record?
by digby
I love Rachel Maddow, but I don’t think I have to tell anyone who reads this blog why this is so destructive:
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If progressives want to keep doing the small government Republicans’ dirty work for them, they’ll keep cheering Democratic deficit reduction as a big win for the good guys. All it does is continually make a bipartisan case for starving government of the funds it needs to ensure that we live in a decent society. It’s a fools game.
Dday wrote about this yesterday (as did I) in a post aptly entitled: Democrats Bragging on Their Deficit-Cutting Skills Helps Nobody, Hurts America.
This really depresses me …
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