Dec 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Funding Child Care
Sara Mead has a post up at Early Ed Watch scrutinizing different organizations’ proposals for taking action to ameliorate the growing child care funding crisis as the recession builds. Third Way makes a special appearance — turns out that their big idea is a regressive tax cut!
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December 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Oooh, here comes some hot guest post action.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
That sounds more like a conservative eyewash plan to me.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
What we’ve got here… is a failure to communicate. *beats Ygelsias with stick*
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
That didn’t take long. w00t!
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
You weren’t kidding when you said “regressive”. That’s some AEI level shit right there.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Butbutbut… how do we know that it’s Matt trashing Third Way and not Jennifer Palmieri? It’s ohsohard for me to know what to think now that the integrity of this blog has been compromised!
It’s downright Orwellian!
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
King Matt returns!~! Oh thank the God in Heaven.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I still don’t get how the Third Way – cited as a “centrist think tank” in this link – is a vital cog in the progressive machine or whatever other doubleplusgood we got from Palmieri. (And like another commenter said, if the “Third” Way is progressive, what were the first and second ways?)
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Good point, VR; post election the CAP is moving to the center?? “We’re a right of center nation” we keep hearing ad nauseum
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Enjoy:
This is James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic.
Most readers know that the views expressed on Jeffrey’s blog are his own and don’t always reflect the views of The Atlantic. Such is the case with regard to Jeffrey’s comments on the relative merits of hummus and baba ghanoush. Our institution has partnered with the makers of baba ganoush, as well as tabouleh and fattoush, on a number of projects, and we have a great deal of respect for their excellent work product, including the entire spectrum of Middle Eastern salads and paste-like foods, with the exception of halvah. We at The Atlantic do not take sides in the ongoing dispute between partisans of hummus and partisans of baba ghanoush. These food products are key leaders in the Middle East food products industry, and we look forward to eating them in the future.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
You’ll note that Yglesias – if that is, indeed, his name – is careful not to express an opinion on the propriety of regressive tax cuts. That exclamation point looks like enthusiasm to me!
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Good Matt, keep mocking Third Way and you’ll get your blogosphere respect back.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
This whole deal killed about half the enthusiasm I had for Obama coming in.
I wouldn’t really care if this was some stupid editorial flap here, but if Third Way can muscle Ms. Acting CEO into barfing out a groveling apology for their shitty organization what can they do to Podesta? Are they that powerful or do we really have a stealth team in their lined up with Third Way ideologically?
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
HTIB
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
That’ll teach poor children to choose the wrong parents.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Regressive tax plans seem great to Lord Yglesias when he proposes them for parking, yet when others propose them he is suddenly principled? Methinks no, another fine example of the intellectual dishonesty with Lord Yglesias. Can he just join the politico already and group the whole bunch together. Heck maybe Lord Yglesias and JMart could team up on a new blog!
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
In October, I posted my list of reasons to oppose BHO, and his CAP link get its own entry in the list. If you think what Palmieri did on this blog was braindead, wait until people like her start setting policy.
Here are my posts on them for a preview.
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
“turns out that their big idea is a regressive tax cut!” And you should have seen the Sunday Times magazine, arguing that we should learn from Mexico in imposing moral restrictions on who gets aid, as if those out of work hate work. Now there’s a country that’s solved poverty.
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
not going there “24 ahead”
post them here or we don’t read ‘em, boy
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
“not going there “24 ahead”
post them here or we don’t read ‘em, boy”
No matter where he posts, nobody reads his bullshit either way.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
You sir, are a badass.
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
It’s not regressive – it’s just an economic incentive to sell your baby as a food item for DC insiders and pentagon spokespeople.
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
it’s just an economic incentive to sell your baby as a
food itemwork product for DC insiders and pentagon spokespeople.December 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Good on you for continuing to poke sticks at the Third Way. I had little opinion on them before Sunday. Now, I’m fairly well educated and consider them an anti-liberal organization trying to concern troll the progressive legislative landslide many of us are working to enact.
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 am
Matt seems to be taking a very Brad DeLong approach to Third Way, only a bit less sarcastic, and nicer.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Third Way is a bunch of rich asshole bankers. Of course they hate poor people – that is their fine, fine work product. They are the same Clinton people who cancelled welfare, started auditing the Earned Income Tax Credit at the highest rate of any tax returns, and gave us the gem that is NAFTA. Off with their heads.
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