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I'm closing the last one due to comment spamming, which tends to target blogs without recent activity and threads that have been open too long. Continue here.

Posted by Baseball Crank at 9:19 AM | Blog 2006-13 | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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MVH wrote:
Well, our problems are now solved! We now have a deal that:

(1) doesn't address significant entitlement reform
(2) probably doesn't prevent our debt downgrade
(3) cuts spending in the near term, which is dumb.

In other words, a perfectly good waste of a manufactured debt crisis.
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We had a debate 2 Summers ago about addressing significant entitlement reform. Alas, those who didn't like the "public option" because they didn't want their hard-earned tax dollars to pay for some ni**a's healthcare won.

Posted by: Berto at August 2, 2011 9:58 AM

Is Berto the spammer you talked about?

Posted by: PaulV at August 2, 2011 12:00 PM

He's more of a pre-existing condition.

Posted by: Crank at August 2, 2011 4:03 PM
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