Is Effective Deficit Reduction Possible Without a ‘Catastrophic Crisis’?

Michael Kinsley, managing editor of The Atlantic Wire, is annoyed with Paul Krugman’s latest column in The New York Times, which he calls “patronizing” for its language and seeming blindness to political reality:

Paul Krugman writes another patronizing column Monday morning in the New York Times, accusing deficit

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Dems Filling Joe Wilson’s War Chest

Instinctively, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was ready to move on after Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) apologized to the White House for his “You lie!” outburst during President Obama’s health reform speech to Congress last week. Political pressure from her own caucus, however, has More…