D or R

Thanks to Paul Begala and (Steph)Stephanie Miller.
A metaphor which does not exactly work...Do you want the car which was driven into a ditch and now pulled out, put in Drive or Reverse? Or maybe I am being too particular, but some are being too general. [More Charts* and back...what? But back to metaphors.]

*Fiscal Economic Bank for the Buck
[stimulus spending more effective than tax cuts]

[More context on con text of charts and tables.]
Macro link /Micro M y t h s Dis Spelled .
[Un-incorporated In-Box: Speaking of Steph("the sky is falling") beyond confidence is competence. No, this is not directed at Stephanie, but at Republicans** who have no confidence(or faith) in America.]

** and Conservatives (Tea-Partiers are too naive to have confidence.)
*** (Ribble) No mockery intended, but I might bring up my TOW trick.

[Just In-Box- Ouch]

Mixed News: colors and letters

Just the point of TheLiaisonReport
Good News Sad News: Which came first the chicken or the sky is falling?

OK maybe I am mixing metophores or stretching the points to find a line, but HorsesAss.Org dropped this and I don't know if it is his scoop on The Scarlet Letter.

Sad news first: Washington State Senator Brian Weinstein will not be seeking a second term. He was a fiesty progressive.

Good news then: there will be an open race on the House side, because Republican Representative Fred Jarrett will run for Brian's Senate seat as a Democrat. He was a progressive Republican.

Kudos to Goldy for the punditry and analysis on this flip-flop, not to characterize any of them here. From my perspective maybe Fred was not a progressive Republican, he was probably D progressive Republican. That is my wisecrack for the night. I better save any personal sense of them for later.