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What's the Plan After Default?

David Frum writes : Tip O’Neill, the former speaker of the House, was asked at his retirement in 1987 how Washington had changed since he arrived in 1953. He answered, “The people are better. The results are worse.” What he meant: There are many fewer drunks in government than there used to …

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Written by Andrew Gelman on Sunday September 25, 2011