John Amato's Plug For Digby (Hullabaloo)

[Digby is a favourite of mine. As John A. at Crooks & Liars says, her writing is brilliant. Bookmark Hullabaloo. And click to her article! It's clearly written and insightful. Ever since about the November elections, it's been my feeling that the deficit "crisis" -- while a serious problem that must be addressed in the long term -- was being assiduously pumped up by the terror-mongering media, when the real and urgent problem is unemployment -- which demands spending on investment!]

April 14, 2011 07:15 PM
Deficit 'Salem Witch' Trials
By John Amato

"This is very cool.

"Digby has crashed the beltway party again and wrote another great op-ed for The Hill.

"DC’s deficit frenzy

"The entire political world has descended into a deficit frenzy that rivals the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials. The mania has been growing for months, but exploded last week when D.C. heartthrob Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (R) unveiled what was widely received as the most important document since the Emancipation Proclamation and the entire political establishment started babbling about “brio” and “courage.” Nothing else matters at this point — not anemic economic growth, not sustained, shockingly high unemployment, not a Middle East uprising of world-changing consequence — not even an epic nuclear catastrophe...read on

"Click through and read it. We need to support our own who write so brilliantly."