Matt Yglesias makes the worthwhile point that for all the liberal hand-wringing about the coming Thousand Year Rove, the GOP coalition is fundamentally unstable. It relies on unsustainable spending levels and constant tax cuts: take away either one (which sheer numbers suggest we’ll have to do eventually) and the coalition falls apart.
But I just can’t escape the feeling that the Republican leadership knows this and has already planned for it. Right?
Can we really believe that they don’t have a plan to deal with this? Maybe. After all, they didn’t have a plan for postwar Iraq.
Now Playing: Episode 371
Appointments gone amok, what Bernie Madoff represents, and finally, our thoughts on the latest conflict in Gaza.
Links Mentioned: Richardson drops out … Coryn threatens not to seat Franken … Thomas Schweich on the Office of Personnel.
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