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Esquire's deficit reduction plan gets an "F"

Michael Lind , Salon

President Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission, which is scheduled to issue its report on the budget in December, has been criticized for being stacked with conservative deficit hawks, including its co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. In order to present an alternate view, Esquire magazine .. submitted 05/21/12

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Wall Street's anti-Obama strategy: Absurd analogies

Michael Lind , Salon

Has the war of metaphors gone too far? Historians, constitutional lawyers and even zoologists have jumped into the fray provoked by Wall Street critics of the Obama administration and Congress. It all began when Stephen A. Schwarzman, a co-founder (with right-wing Republican deficit hawk Pete Pet .. submitted 05/21/12