It isn’t brave to ask the poor to sacrifice for the rich. I show how brave I am by asking the rich to sacrifice for their own interests.

Brookings Institute’s Alice Rivlin’s latest opinion piece on Social Security, “The Right Reason for Saving Social Security,” makes the case for why she and the other members of the Catfood Commission are the wrong people for the job.

While the UK Guardian and other press are reporting that Wikileaks logs are showing over 2000 people on an elite task force’s “capture or kill” hit list, the New York Times is reporting a figure of only 70.

The Wikileaks release represents a potential turning point, with the White House now trying to defend a policy that doesn’t look all that defensible while walking a fine line between playing down the contents of the release and condemning the leak.

In a an interview with me on intelligence reform on Saturday, Speaker Pelosi suggested that the White House should either accept real reform of the oversight function–including some version of House amendments on GAO review of intelligence programs and expanded intelligence briefing beyond the Gang of Four–or accept full responsibility if anything goes wrong with [...]

The COIN crew is circling the wagons, telling us to move along, nothing to see in those messy Wikileaks documents but the House will today vote to make us pay another $30 Billion for it all.

Meanwhile, can we please leave this completely insane clusterf**k?

The preemptive yawn of the lovers of preemptive war.

Jack Johnson – Upside Down

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of Senator Tom Coburn.