No Super Democrats On This Committee

How can we explain the Democrats who have been appointed to serve on the Joint Select Committee? (Commonly known as the 'Super Committee.') Let's play political "Jeopardy." Under Senate Democratic appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, for $200, "Her job is to elect …

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Written by Steve Bell on Wednesday August 10, 2011

The Debt Deal's Biggest Losers

In my new column for The Week I discuss who has lost the most in the new debt deal: The first and most obvious loser: National security. The economist Herb Stein used to advocate a simple model of federal budgeting: a) Decide how much it costs to defend the country. b) Pay for it. …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday August 4, 2011