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From my Twitter feed (4/8-4/13) Brendan Nyhan Apr 13, 2011 at 1:32 PM
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	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @blakehounshell: The lede here defies parody http://t.co/qj4yPaY
	Pray. Hope. Prepare. - NYTimes.com Where does the Arab world go from here?
	Apr 13, 2011 at 10:42 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Context for GOP concern over current field RT @mleewelch 8/91: "Democrats' Distress Grows As Presidential Field Shrinks" http://is.gd/tVPO5P
	Political Memo - Democrats' Distress Grows As Presidential Field Shrinks - NYTimes.com Democrats struggled today to adjust to the last thing they needed six months before the Iowa caucuses: an already tiny Presidential field that keeps shrinking. As expected, Senator John D. Roc...
	Apr 13, 2011 at 2:07 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @conor64: My critique of a Howard Kutz piece applies to much of Beltway political journalism http://bit.ly/eODyfg
	The Coddling Of John McCain - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic A recent profile of the Arizona Republican exemplifies much of what is wrong with establishment political reporting
	Apr 13, 2011 at 12:18 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Less bad != good RT @AdamSerwer: Sure starting to sound less and less like Obama was the one who got rolled http://ampro.me/gU13Cg
	NationalJournal.com - Budget Cutting Ain’t Easy - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The meat of the spending deal struck between the two parties late Friday night was revealed in a legislative omnibus released early Tuesday morning. The specifics show that finding nearly $40 bi...
	Apr 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Innovative tactics! MT @ModeledBehavior Will Trump cater to any other conspiracy theories? eg "Vote for me, I'll release the Roswell files!"
	Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Wow. RT @daveweigel CNN poll: Romney at 11%. Even if you remove Trump, Romney's lost 27% of his support since 03/10. http://slate.me/fdpc2P
	Weigel : CNN Poll: Trump in Front, Romney Tumbling The headline from CNN's poll of 2012 is that Donald Trump has vaulted into a lead with Mike Huckabee. Another, alternate headline: Wow, what's happening to Mitt Romney? (Inevitable caveat: Natio...
	Apr 12, 2011 at 4:52 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @ProfJRoberts you of all people know that these polls are completely meaningless! // Trump yes, but Romney collapse might matter
	Apr 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @ProfJRoberts: @BrendanNyhan yes, just like Kerry's collapse in '04, and McCain's in '08. If the MSM rules someone out, I'm buying!
	Apr 12, 2011 at 5:30 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Important caveats to previous tweets -- Romney still leading in NH, small samples, etc. RT @MysteryPollster http://huff.to/eNGgAU
	Trump's Polls: A Reality Check WASHINGTON - Donald Trump a 2012 presidential frontrunner? Seriously?
	Apr 12, 2011 at 5:30 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Chait had same reaction as me to Romney poll: "His name recognition-driven support... will continue to peel off" http://j.mp/gFQeVA
	Romney Death Watch | The New Republic The New Republic covers politics, culture, and the arts with a focus on the White House, foreign policy, Congress, Capitol Hill, Wikileaks, the lame duck session, literature, and more.
	Apr 13, 2011 at 2:11 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Yet more Politco "analysis" of Romney's hair/clothes: http://j.mp/gKqyzd Claims campaign strategically letting his hair get messed up
	5 challenges for front-runner Mitt Romney - Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns The candidate's early polling and pick-and-choose primary map betrays the precariousness of his position.
	Apr 12, 2011 at 1:18 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan MT @pewresearch 'ridiculous' most frequent (but far from toughest) word used to describe budget negotiations http://pewrsr.ch/fmidPW
	Budget Negotiations in a Word - Pew Research Center The public has an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the budget negotiations that narrowly avoided a government shutdown. A weekend survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ...
	Apr 12, 2011 at 5:20 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan New study by my co-author Peter Ubel MT @phlu MDs Choose Different Treatments Than They Recommend for Their Patients http://t.co/BHEsfef
	Physicians May Heal Themselves Differently - WSJ.com Doctors weigh treatment options differently when they're deciding for themselves and when they're making recommendations to patients, according to a new study.
	Apr 12, 2011 at 2:50 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan .@jmartpolitico continues the pathological focus on Romney's clothes: http://politi.co/hDj08J See this post for more: http://j.mp/fKqu4i
	Mitt Romney's 2012 video clues - Jonathan Martin Jobs, geography and fashion sense are on display.
	Is Mitt Romney the Al Gore of 2012? - Brendan Nyhan The media's coverage of Mitt Romney is showing signs of the pathologies that afflicted its coverage of Al Gore in the early stages of the 2000 presidential campaign. In 1999 and 2000, the press ...
	Apr 12, 2011 at 12:02 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan After all the hype, it's amazing how she's just faded out - @stevekornacki on the declining fortunes of Sarah Palin http://j.mp/ga1BTW
	War Room: What ever happened to Sarah Palin? With each passing day, her White House stock seems to decline. Does it even matter anymore if she runs?
	Apr 11, 2011 at 11:32 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Will future presidents adopt Obama's "hidden hand" strategy? http://j.mp/g88tup In a polarized age, public stands often inflame opposition.
	NationalJournal.com - Like Ike - Friday, March 25, 2011 National Journal delivers the latest political news and analysis. How Barack Obama’s leadership style resembles Dwight Eisenhower’s.
	Apr 11, 2011 at 6:37 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Via @smotus, a generally good article on "What does it really mean when you make up your mind to vote for a candidate?" http://j.mp/gV8jUf
	Casting about for Your Vote | CAA What does it really mean when you make up your mind to vote for a candidate? . Maybe you flinched when you heard it. Or fought the thought of moving to Canada. Or maybe the expression made perfe...
	Apr 11, 2011 at 6:32 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan When will people learn that pricing tickets below market just gives $ to scalpers? http://j.mp/eTmtI1 If you don't want it, give to charity.
	How to Increase Revenue at Next Restaurant « Cheap Talk A blog about economics, politics and the random interests of forty-something professors
	Apr 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan New NBER paper on the effects of capping individual tax expenditure benefits http://j.mp/g8tpPo
	Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits This paper analyzes a new way of reducing the major individual tax expenditures: capping the total amount that tax expenditures as a whole can reduce each individual's tax burden. More specifica...
	Apr 11, 2011 at 5:20 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Playbook: Ayers hire "boost for...Pawlenty campaign, which needed some buzz" http://j.mp/erBMcf Um, staff can't solve this one...
	POLITICO Playbook Budget deal has increases for Obama
	Apr 11, 2011 at 3:19 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan New Fox poll flagged by @daveweigel finds 40% of Americans think there is "cause to wonder where [Obama] was born" http://j.mp/dUWqOd
	Weigel : Poll Result of the Day: 40 Percent Say It's Okay to Question Obama's Birthplace From Fox News, in a poll of 914 registered voters: When you consider that only 24 percent of people doubt Obama's citizenship -- 34 percent of conservatives, 37 percent of Republicans, 41 percen...
	Apr 11, 2011 at 1:37 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan I've been skeptical of unrealistic claims about what Obama can get from Congress but @jonathanchait is on the $ here http://bit.ly/ez35oP
	Obama Needs A Better Hostage Rescue Strategy | The New Republic The New Republic covers politics, culture, and the arts with a focus on the White House, foreign policy, Congress, Capitol Hill, Wikileaks, the lame duck session, literature, and more.
	Apr 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan NYU's Adam Bonica estimates Kloppenburg's and Prosser's ideology (WI Supreme Ct.) based on campaign contributions http://j.mp/feJ9pf
	Judicial Ideology and The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election « Ideological Cartography The Wisconsin Supreme Court election between Justice David Prosser and Assistant Attorney General JoAnn Kloppenburg has received more media attention than any state judicial election in recent m...
	Apr 11, 2011 at 11:55 AM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan There is no middle ground here. MT @jstrevino Palin trying to split the difference on Obama's birth certificate: http://abcn.ws/gWOz2t
	Sarah Palin Supports Trump's Birther Efforts - George Stephanopoulos' Bottom Line John Berman Reports: Donald Trump has at least one high profile supporter when it comes to his loud and frequent questioning of the circumstances of President Obama’s birth: Sarah Palin. On the ...
	Apr 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan New QJE paper finds access to payday loans "leads to increased difficulty paying mortgage, rent and utilities bills" http://j.mp/eKZfei
	The Real Costs of Credit Access: Evidence from the Payday Lending Market* Quarterly Journal of Economics Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Using geographic differences in the availability of payday loans, I estimate the real effects of credit acces...
	Apr 10, 2011 at 5:42 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan New research by my friends Michael Heaney & Fabio Rojas on partisan dynamics in antiwar protests (ie the vanishing Dems) http://j.mp/ehrPd5
	Views: Antiwar No More? - Inside Higher Ed Whatever happened to the peace movement? Scott McLemee looks at new research on the collapse of a cause.
	Apr 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan RT @MysteryPollster How plausible is Waukesha WI bombshell? Very, say turnout stats and history http://t.co/75iwdMe Plus interactive plot!
	Wisconsin Election Bombshell: How Plausible? UPDATE: 11:20 p.m. -- Perhaps the most convincing evidence so far that human error explains the initial omission of Brookfield's results comes from our colleagues at the Brookfield Patch. On ele...
	Apr 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Balz: Dems "forced to agree to much larger spending cuts" to not "appear resistant to popular will" http://j.mp/h5f2y7 Missing: GOP House.
	Budget fight shows Washington still broken Despite the last-minute deal, the confrontation over the budget showed Washington’s worst side. No one is likely to benefit politically.
	Apr 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan Gail Collins devotes her column to debunking Trump's birtherism -- good for her: http://j.mp/ga7PNU See also Politifact: http://j.mp/f3ix2Y
	Donald Trump Strikes Back - NYTimes.com In a Letter to the Editor, he covers all his issues with Barack Obama’s citizenship status. And he complains about being referred to as a “birther.”
	PolitiFact | All statements involving Donald Trump PolitiFact.com is a project of the St. Petersburg Times to help you find the truth in Washington and the Obama presidency.
	Apr 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM
	BrendanNyhan Brendan Nyhan John Sides continues to set the record straight on the 1995-96 shutdowns and Clinton approval at @monkeycageblog http://j.mp/dT141W
	Yet More on the Shutdowns and Clinton Approval ChrisBowers
	Apr 9, 2011 at 1:09 AM

Comments

[David in Cal]

It's ironic that Palin's star is fading just as the President proposes a 15-member appointive panel to limit coverage, i.e., a death panel. Paul Krugman's feeble defense is, "Remember: you can always buy whatever health care you want; the question is what taxpayers should pay for."

In response, Ann Althouse paraphrases Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, permits rich and poor alike to pay for surgeries, medicine, and hospital stays."

Let me be clear. I have no objection to having a panel choose limitations on coverage. That's an aspect of any insuance. I have only a mild objection to the overly dramatic title, "death panel." Exaggeration and drama are normal in political discourse. My main complaint is with those who stubbornly repeated the mantra that there would no death panels and implied that anyone who disagreed must be lying or demented.

[Rob]

The most precious moment of the President's speech yesterday was on this very point:

Now, we believe the reforms we've proposed to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid will enable us to keep these commitments to our citizens while saving us $500 billion by 2023, and an additional $1 trillion in the decade after that. But if we're wrong, and Medicare costs rise faster than we expect, then this approach will give the independent commission the authority to make additional savings by further improving Medicare.

By further improving Medicare! That's right, additional rationing of care wouldn't be a limitation we're forced by scarce resources to accept, it'd be new and improved Medicare.

In 1984, the Ministry of Truth promoted three slogans: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. In the Obama rewrite, there's a fourth slogan: Diminished is Improved.

[JP]

Gail Collins broke her rule, she mentioned Mitt Romney without mentioning the dog on top of the car.