Today on the Dish, Andrew gave more thought to Ryan's budget and the sacrifices we'll all have to make. He heard out readers from the hard left and beyond, but still couldn't stand the gut reaction of some Democrats without a plan of their own. Catherine Rampell reminded us of other budget proposals on the table, Andrew parsed the CBO score, Tyler Cowen criticized the Democrats for criticizing Ryan's plan, and we all wondered what happened to cutting defense. Andrew backed Will Wilkinson's belief that conservatism has to evolve, tried to understand the KSM trial options, and the GOP steered itself towards a fully anti-Islam platform. Jason Pack unpacked the bands of Libyan rebels, and the frontlines kept moving back and forth.
Glenn Beck ended his reign of terror, Bernstein wasn't holding his breath for Bachmann, and Palinism reached Canada. Bristol raked in the celebrity bucks and made the Situation look good, Andrew got psyched for the pot candidate, and we read the tea leaves on a government shutdown. Mark Johnson tracked the economic center of gravity head east, Joseph E. Stiglitz tied the fate of the rich to the fate of the poor, and whiteness in America grew malleable. Ta-Nehisi tried to tap into the voices from the Civil War, Bruce Schneier exposed e-book scams, and Donald Shoup dismissed free parking. Freddie DeBoer worried about Twitter, an astrophysicist worried about earth's future, and a reader worried about pooping without a Dish app.
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–Z.P.
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